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Most clones I've seen don't look that great, but this one's nice. I noticed that the PCB has no ULA. I'm reading that it was impossible to procure in the USSR because of embargos so the designer, Sergey Zonov, reverse-engineered it and used 74xx ICs. That ..is an impressive feat. It has been replicated by Chris Smith, but by actually opening up a ULA and looking at the circuit. Doing this blindly is just awesome.

It really does look great. Unfortunately for me, grandpa’s one has a broken bottom part and died battery. I tried to repair it but I did not have enough tools not to burn the plate.

It appears to have a better keyboard than the original. The rubber keys were an abomination.

Website does not load for me, unfortunately.