The Specialist is a DIY computer designed in Soviet Union. Its description was published in Modelist-Konstructor, a magazine for scale model builders in 1987.[1][2][3][4][5] It was the first such publication in a magazine not oriented on electronics.
Overview
The original construction was developed by a professional technical school teacher two years earlier. It was much more advanced than previous DIY computers, because it had a higher graphical image resolution (384x256) and a "transparent" video system, which did not slow down the CPU when both the CPU and the video system tried to access the RAM simultaneously. It gained limited popularity with hobbyists, though some factories produced DIY kits (Lik for example).