Kay 1024
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Kay 1024[1][2][3] was a Russian clone of the ZX Spectrum[4] that was produced in 1998.[5] It was made by the NEMO[6] company and had 1024 KB of RAM.[7] It was a rival to Scorpion ZS 256, having a slightly lower price. It had a controller for a PC keyboard and HDD but not for floppy disks, although it was available as an extension card. Adding a General Sound card was easy, and the CPU had a 10 Mhz turbo mode.
Specifications
Brief technical specifications of KAY-1024 computer:
- Supplied as a complete board, with a IS-DOS floppy disk with drivers and utilities for KAY-1024, a ribbon cable and instructions (single sheet of paper). Optionally: 40 MB hard drive with the preinstalled operating system.
- 1024 Kb RAM (61 pages) May be used in two ways: 256 Kb (7FFD 1FFD) + 640 Kb RAM disk in TR-DOS (virtual drive "C").
- 3.5 MHz CPU with no wait states, 7 MHz in turbo-mode (one of the fastest turbo). Turbo mode may be controller by software, logical level on bus, or by an external button.
- KAY-1024/3SL/TURBO motherboard with three slots for additional devices: floppy disk controller, IDE drive, IBM PC keyboard, modem, etc. No any soldering needed. Board measures 1,84 × 1,75 × 3,25 dm^2.
- Built-in hard drive support (in ROM). IS-DOS may be loaded directly from hard drive, accessible from the computer main menu.
- The IDE hard drive interface for Nemo-bus and IS-DOS can be used within TRDOS.
- IBM PC keyboard and mouse controller (Kempston mouse).
- XTR-Modem, for Nemo-bus.
- 5.25″, 3.5″ disk drives.
- "BETA-TURBO" floppy disk controller for Nemo-Bus.
- Optional: AY-3-8910, Z84C0010PEC, Z84006PEC, ROM 27C512 with KAY-1024 ROM set, real-time clock IC "Dallas", ribbon cables for HDD and FDD; General Sound external sound card, Nemo-bus compatible; General Sound memory module.
- Kempston and Sinclair joysticks.
- Complete Centronics printer interface.
References
- ^ "ROM". speccy4ever.speccy.org.
- ^ "KAY 1024 Schematic" (PDF).
- ^ "Retro Gamer nº 015 by Revistas Clássicas de Games - Issuu". issuu.com.
- ^ "ZX-Spectrum graphics modes". 2002.
- ^ "KAY 1024. Руководство по эксплуатации". zxpress.ru.
- ^ "AAA presents: ZX Spectrum demo Kay 1024 Information". zxaaa.net.
- ^ "SBLive.narod.ru - KAY-1024". sblive.narod.ru.
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