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The following project should not remain unmentioned, because an 8-bit machine with the name COBRA which at the same time comes along so beautifully, one should have seen at least once.

The COBRA is an eastern block clone of the ZX Spectrum based on the Z80. There were and are quite a few of these clones at the time, but only a few of these machines come in such a nice dress as the rebuild by Thomas Sowell.

On his blog you find the history of the COBRA and the origin of the name derived from COmputer BRAșov - where Brașov in Romania is the actual city of origin of the box.

There are a number of additional pictures of Thomas' version of the machine here. Attractive especially because of the JVC and thanks to all the necessary info on GitHub also a nice template for a wanny-be-self-build.