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The Spectrum that outlived Sinclair

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22 August 2026

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Sinclair stopped making the Spectrum in 1992. Nobody told the Soviet Union. Amateur clones built from smuggled schematics spread across the USSR by the hundreds of thousands — and the newest one was designed in 2025.