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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    My father had the Soviet clone, and it’s still in the attic in a beat-up original box. It no longer works, the chip was killed presumably by static electricity when someone touched the battery contacts… Early CMOS was super fragile, even low-frequency circuits like this.

    Super boring BTW.

    This was probably the best affordable electronic toy in the USSR. They could have beaten this if they released a Tetris handheld but they didn’t have enough R&D time before the regime crumbled; it would likely never get approved either.