From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
So I'm guessing that the hardware is pretty much
a
straight clone.
Apparently not, at least for some of the Eastern Bloc clones; see
http://hampage.hu/tpa/e_index.html. For the Hungarian machines, cards were
definitely physically different, I'm betting things like power supplies are
local creations and anything using LSI (F-11 clones, for example) were
undoubtedly somewhat original due to differences in the manufacturing
processes the Soviets had access to (and DEC never made anything that looked
like a K1801VM1).
Very faithful clones as far as the software was concerned, though.