NAME  

Baltica

MANUFACTURER  

Sonet

TYPE  

Home Computer

ORIGIN  

Soviet Union (USSR)

YEAR  

1989

END OF PRODUCTION  

Around 1993

BUILT IN LANGUAGE  

Sinclair Basic

KEYBOARD  

QWERTY full stroke keyboard (40 keys) with up to 6 functions per key

CPU  

Z80A

SPEED  

4.0 MHz

RAM  

48KB (42KB left for programming)

ROM  

16KB (Basic & OS)

TEXT MODES  

32 x 24

GRAPHIC MODES  

256 x 192

COLORS  

16

SOUND  

1 voice / 10 octaves (Beeper)

SIZE / WEIGHT  

36 x 18 x 6.8 cm / 1.6 kg

I/O PORTS  

Expansion port, RF video out, cassette interface

POWER SUPPLY  

Internal PSU: 220V, 50Hz, 10W

PERIPHERALS  

ZX printer, 5 1/4 FDD

PRICE  

Unknown

 

Baltica

Baltica

 The ZX Spectrum computers were made in the end of 80-s. At that time the Soviet Union was still behind the "Iron Curtain" and it was impossible to buy an original ZX Spectrum computer. Those little computers that were imported into the Soviet Union cost so much that it was not possible for an average person to buy one. At that time a lot of illegal enterprises sprung around the country which manually assembled ZX Spectrum clones from the Soviet components. In most cases the computers looked real cheap, but they worked. Only in the beginning of 90-s the Soviet industry at last has started to produce computers, though they were the same ZX Spectrum


clones. Baltica is one of them.

It was first produced in 1988 by cooperative (private enterprise) Sonet. Baltica is a full analogue of the ZX Spectrum. Two versions were available: 48/16 KB RAM/ROM and 64/32 KB. Baltica was based on the Z80A CPU (unlike many Russian clones this one used real Z80A CPUs produced in the West or in S.Korea). Memory is based on Russian M2764A (Intel 2764 clone). Computer had a connection for the TV, tape recorder, joysticks and expansion port.