The Pravetz 8D was a Bulgarian clone of the Oric Atmos featuring a Bulgarian version of the 6502 processor called CM630, 16 KB of ROM and 48 KB of RAM. The keyboard was almost the same as the original Atmos version, including a MK key, similar to the CTRL key, a C/L key allowing to display Cyrillic or Latin alphabets, and cursor keys. As in Pravets 82 (etc), the original lowercase characters were replaced by cyrillic characters and the C/L lock key, was the CAPS LOCK key of the Oric Atmos. Like the original Atmos, The 8D had two modes of recording : Fast mode at 2400 bits/sec. and slow mode at 300 bits/sec. The computer also featured a parallel Centronics interface and a user port. Pravetz provided a local dot matrix printer called "Petritch" but the popular Epson printers could be also connected to the 8D. The "D" after Pravets 8 stays for Domashen (For home use), and the idea was, that it should be used without having to buy any peripherals - monitor (which couldn't be connected through composite video to a Pravets 8D without modification) and FDD (cassete recorder used instead). Floppy drives, modem and joysticks were also available. Floppy disk drives were very hard to find (in fact they appeared only in the early nineteens). They were a modification of the Pravetz 82 FDDs but with a built-in controller, making them two times bigger. Probably that was one of the reasons why Pravetz 8D never achieved the popularity ot Pravetz 8 (despite of the 3 times lower price). NAME: 8D MANUFACTURER: Pravetz TYPE: Home Computer ORIGIN: Bulgaria YEAR: 1985 END OF PRODUCTION: 1989 BUILT IN LANGUAGE: Basic KEYBOARD: Full stroke 57 keys Qwerty + cyrillic CPU: CM630 - Bulgarian copy of the 6502 SPEED: 1 mHz RAM: 48 KB ROM: 16 KB TEXT MODES: 40 columns x 28 lines GRAPHIC MODES: 240 x 200 (+ 3 text lines) COLORS: 8 SOUND: Programmable Sound Generator AY-3-8912 (from General Instruments) 3 voices, 8 octaves + white noise SIZE / WEIGHT: 35 (W) x 25 (D) cm I/O PORTS: Power supply, Expansion port, Printer/Centronics port, Tape-recorder DIN plug, RGB video out, RF TV out POWER SUPPLY: Built-in power supply unit PERIPHERALS: floppy disk unit, modem, dot matrix printer