NAME  

Poisk

MANUFACTURER  

KPO Электронмаш (Electronmash)

TYPE  

Home Computer

ORIGIN  

USSR

YEAR  

1991

END OF PRODUCTION 

Unknown

CPU

KM1810VM88 (8088)

RAM

128 KB

ROM

16 KB

COLORS

B/w or 4

RESOLUTION

640x200

 

Poisk

Poisk

Poisk Computer was built in 1991 by KPO Electronmash located in Kiev. It is based on the 1810WM88 CPU, which is a clone of the Intel's 8088. Poisk has 4 slots for expansion cards like Floppy Card, CPM card, Printer, 512 KB Memory-Expansion, MFM HDD controller, ROM-disk, EEPROM programming, RS-232/Centronics ports.

Poisk is a cheap and not fully compatible IBM PC clone. Many hardware functions are emulated via BIOS (e.g. video adapter text mode).