Robik

'Arithmetic Logic Unit «Robik»') was a Soviet and Ukrainian ZX Spectrum clone produced between July 1989 and January 1998 by the NPO "Rotor" in Cherkasy.

The Robik is a monoblock computer in the keyboard formfactor, with an external power supply block, permanently connected by wire.

This version did not sell well because by then the main market for the Robik was hardware enthusiasts and this design did not allow for modifications.

[2] The Robik had four ports on the back side: ВИДЕО ("Video"), RGB, JS-K, ◯_◯ ("Tape").

It requires to connect cassette deck via ◯_◯ ("Tape") port, for read and write data.

There was also an external floppy disk drive produced for the Robik by NPO "Rotor", to use diskettes instead of tapes.

The Robik distribution includes a cassette tape with seven programs: There is a number of the Robik computers stored in various museums and private collections around the world: У 2017, the "LandauCenter" at the National University of Kharkiv organized an exhibition of the 1980s computers.

The Robik keyboard layout variants
PKM 1B (on the left) next to Cherry MX switches