The Pentagon (Russian: Пентагон) home computer is an enhanced clone of the British-made Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128. It was manufactured by amateurs in the former Soviet Union, following freely distributable documentation. Its PCB was copied all over the ex-USSR between 1991-1996, making it a widespread ZX Spectrum clone. The name "Pentagon" derives from the shape of the original Pentagon 48 PCB which has a diagonal cut in one of the corners, giving it five sides.[1]

Versions

  • Pentagon 48K (1989 by Vladimir Drozdov)
  • Pentagon 128K (1991)
  • Pentagon 128K 2+ (1991 by ATM)
  • Pentagon 128K 3+ (1993 by Solon)
  • Pentagon 1024SL v1.x (2005 by Alex Zhabin)
  • Pentagon-1024SL v2.x (2006 by Alex Zhabin)
  • Pentagon ver.2.666 (2009 by Alex Zhabin)[2]

The Pentagon 1024SL v2.3 included most of the upgrades of the standard Spectrum architecture, including 1024 KB RAM, Beta 128 Disk Interface and ZX-BUS slots (especially for IDE and General Sound cards). This model also featured a "turbo" mode (7 MHz instead of the original's 3.50 MHz).[3]

Pentagon-1024SL v2.x

Upgrades from the original ZX Spectrum

References

  1. "Pentagon — SpeccyWiki". speccy.info.
  2. "Информация". pentagon.nedopc.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  3. "Pentagon — SpeccyWiki". speccy.info.