Romanian Sinclair ZX-Spectrum clone: Electronica CIP-03

A Romanian Sinclair ZX-Spectrum clone made from 1988 by Electronica CIE and sold only in Romania in blue or red case colour version.
http://myretrotech.blogspot.com
Clone rumeno dello ZX Spectrum Sinclair, fabbricato e venduto solo in Romania da Electronia CIE con colore blu o rosso. Il CIP-03 era dotato di un interprete BASIC compatibile con lo ZX Spectrum nella ROM. Invece del testo originale di copyright Sinclair in fase di boot, mostra semplicemente una stringa "BASIC S" al centro dell'ultima linea di fondo dello schermo.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• zx
• spectrum
• sinclair
• zx81
• z80
• cip-03
• cip-02
• cip03
• cip02
• retrocomputer
• retrocomputing
• retrogaming
• commodore
• retroconsole

[Abrimaal]

I see this for the first time. I've known Polish, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese clones, but never the Romanian one. How much RAM is there on the board?

[ZXCezko]

@Abrimaal 64 KByte, more info on my site: myretrotech.blogspot.com/2011/­09/electronica-cip-03.html ;-)

[blackcountryme]

A good looking computer. looked as good if not better then the Spectrum itself. Is that the HUGE power brick? hell its half the size fo the machine itself! interesting stuff...Thanks.

[ZXCezko]

@blackcountryme the power supply is really big and heavy! :-)

[yerzmyey]

It's a real beauty!

[norberthani]

@blackcountryme That is a linear power supply. The transformer was the same used in the Romanian "Sport" (small format) television sets. I think the size is because of the transformer reuse. I owned such a computer back in 1990 and the power supply (at least the first model) was quite unreliable and because of component tolerances and temperature drift sometimes the fuse blew. The losses were quite high, as the transformer secondary was 12 V AC and the voltage supplied to the CIP was 5 V DC.

[adi4x]

Very nice

[weegerri1sm]

Awesome looking clone.

[madmomentsgo]

cool, never seen this before. 

[OsAND1s]

Cheers from Romania! Check my site related to the Romanian Spectrum clones: h**p://sites.google.com/site/g­eorgechirtoaca/ .