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Hobbit is a Soviet/ Russian 8- bit home computer, based on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum hardware architecture.It also featured a CP/M mode and FORTH mode or LOGO mode, with the FORTH or LOGO operating envirionment residing in an on-board ROM chip.
Hobbit was invented by Dmitry Mikhilov (Russian: Дмитрий Михайлов) and Mikhail Osetinskii (Михаил Осетинский) in St. Petersburg, Russia in the late 1980s. Its first circuitry layout was designed on an earlier home-made computer (built using ASMP of three KR580 chips, the Soviet clones of Intel 8080), by Dmitry Mikhilov as well. The computer was manufactured by the joint venture InterCompex.
Hobbit was marketed in the former Soviet Union as a low-cost personal computer solution for basic educational and office business needs, in additional to its obvious use as a home computer. Schools would buy it as a classroom, interconnecting several machines in a 56K baud networkA computer network is a system for communication among two or more computers. Categorizing By range personal area network (PAN) wireless PAN local area network (LAN) wireless LAN metropolitan area network (MAN) wide area network (WAN) By functional relati. It was possible to use either another Hobbit or a single IBM PC compatibleIBM PC compatible refers to a class of computers which make up the vast majority of smaller computers ( microcomputers) on the market today. They are based (without IBM's participation) on the original IBM PC. They use the Intel x86 architecture and are c computer as a masterMaster is a term that indicates a consummate level of skill, proficiency, superiority or power. It is used in several contexts, as indicated below. The female equivalent is Mistress. A master is also a prototype or template; such usages are also listed. host on the network; a special Hobbit network adapter cardA network card (also called network adapter network interface card etc. is a piece of computer hardware designed to provide for computer communication over a computer network. The card implements the electronic circuitry required to communicate using a sp by InterCompex was needed for the IBM PC in the latter case. Hobbit was also briefly marketed in the U.K.The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly, targeted mainly at the existing ZX Spectrum fans willing to lay their hands on a better computer compatible with the familiar architecture. The rarely available at the domestic market export models featured the internal 3.5"A floppy disk is a data storage device that comprises a circular piece of thin, flexible (hence "floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD not to be drive, just like an Atari STThe Atari ST was a home/ personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. The "ST" allegedly stood for "Sixteen/Thirty-two" which referred to the Motorola 68000's 32-bit internals with 16-bit external buses. Other theories say that ST really stood for or an AmigaAmiga ( Spanish, "female friend") is the name of a range of home/ personal computers whose development started in 1982. The original Amiga Inc. company was bought out in 1984 by Commodore, who marketed the Amiga as their intended successor to the Commodor. Such models always had both the EGA and the TV output connectors operational, as well as the AY8910 sound chip. Domestic models often had missing both the TV output converter as well as the internal speaker. The AY8910 for the domestic models was sold separately as an external extension module, hanging off the same extension bus as the optional external disk drive. The export to the U.K. didn't last long. Official version distributed within InterCompex was that the electrical cable failed some U.K. safety test, but it could also be that the Sinclair intellectual property issues were the real reasons behind the scenes.
Another interesting extension available was the SME board (Screen and Memory Extension). This featured 32Kb cache memory, some of which could be dedicated to video text buffer in CGA mode (this was supported by drivers available only in the FORTH or the CP/M environments; no known programs using the Sinclair-based BASIC mode used this feature).
