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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Robik	Computers	Home Computer	Ukraine	1991	Z80A russian clone	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos links related oc_id source Robik /media/museum/photos/robik_russian-clone_1.jpg /companies/robik ROBIK label value NAME Robik label value MANUFACTURER Robik label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Ukraine label value YEAR 1991 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Basic label value KEYBOARD QWERTY full-stroke keyboard, 55 keys. EDIT, SHIFT (x 3), RESET, DEL, arrow keys label value CPU Z80A russian clone label value SPEED 3,5 MHz label value RAM 64 KB label value VRAM 8 KB label value ROM 16 KB label value TEXT MODES 32 x 24 label value GRAPHIC MODES 256 x 192 label value COLORS 8 label value SOUND Beeper, 1 channel label value SIZE / WEIGHT 4.5 Kg label value I/O PORTS RGB video output, Kempston joystick, Tape interface, Monitor video output label value POWER SUPPLY External power supply ? label value PERIPHERALS Unknown label value PRICE 1200 roubles (December 1991) photos links 757 title subtitle text image ROBIK COMPUTER /media/museum/photos/robik_above_2.jpg title subtitle text image KEYBOARD CLOSEUP /media/museum/photos/robik_keyboard_closeup.jpg title subtitle text image BOTTOM /media/museum/photos/robik_russian-clone_under.jpg title subtitle text image BACK LABEL /media/museum/photos/robik_back-label.jpg title subtitle text image REAR /media/museum/photos/robik_russian-clone_rear.jpg title subtitle text image CONNECTORS /media/museum/photos/robik_connectors.jpg title subtitle text image USER DOCUMENTATION /media/museum/photos/robik_russian-clone_doc.jpg title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/robik_russian-clone_box.jpg title subtitle text image BOX DESIGN /media/museum/photos/robik_box-design.jpg title url text Clube do TK90X http://www.tk90x.com.br Brazilian site dedicated to the TK90 and other Microdigital systems title url text Here, you can buy several Didaktik models and peripherals. http://www.kompaktservis.cz Site in Czech language. Try e-mail title url text Home Computer Museum http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/f_sinclair.html Stephan has a lot of Spectrum clones with wonderful pictures title url text Home Computer Museum - Robik page http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.html?Robik.html Nice pictures including the mother board title url text Sinclair Nostalgia Products http://www.algonet.se/~rsm/zx/zxclones.html Impressive list of ZX Spectrum clones with useful infos title url text ZX LAND http://217.97.12.194/curious/Hardware/rules/zxland/ Nice description of the Robik, with connectors pinouts, etc. title url text ZX Spectrum in the 21st Century http://tarjan.uw.hu/zxclones_en.htm Nice review of modern Spectrum clones /museum/didaktik-gama /museum/didaktik-kompakt /museum/didaktik-m /museum/microdigital-tk-90x /museum/microdigital-tk-95 /museum/spica-ines 776 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230607222416/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=776 2023-06-07

The Robik was a russian ZX Spectrum clone. It was produced in Ukraine, in the city of Cherkasy.

It had 64KB RAM (shared with 16KB ROM) and independed 8KB video RAM (as real speccy, by the way). The keyboard was quite good (apparently) and quite complete. It had even switches to choose between latin and russian character fonts.

A Kempston interface was built in, with separate keys to emulate joystick, which was very convenient in programs that was not games and use the Kempston interface to control the cursor.

Some other advantages:
- CGA video output for professional monitors
- Standard tape interface
- TV RGB interface
- Ability to invert colors to use with some "strange" TV's and monitors
- Separate brightness regulators for R, G, B (bottom side)
- One system expansion slot on motherboard. In most cases user had to modify left side of the keyboard (making special hole). Otherwise expansion cards couldn't fit inside :(
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Source : ZX LAND 6.5 and Maxim from Russia

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