 Iskra
Iskra means "Spark"
Currently, many of the machines are known only by their model number. A few are in captivity - the others are identified from references in books.
This site deals only with calculators, but the Iskra-226, for example,
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"...was
something you'd call a minicomputer / personal computer mix. It could be small or
big. I used a minimal configuration with a big, big block, big 17"
green-and-black monitor, and two huge 8" drives (it took an entire half of
a living room). As I
remember it, the only way to work with I226 was to download BASIC from a floppy
8", which took about 5 minutes. That's what I call slow!
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- Greg Escov
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IskraThe Iskra machines are very strange-looking, and almost certainly not copies of western machines. Iskra is better known as the maker of computers, not of calculators.
Iskra 122
 Listed by the manufacturer "Bronnitsy Sewing-Haberdashery Factory" (!) as sold by them in January 1980.
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Iskra 122-1
 Listed by the manufacturer "Bronnitsy Sewing-Haberdashery Factory" (!) as sold by them in January 1980.
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Iskra 123
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Iskra 2241
 This machine appears to be a 2240 equivalent, with printing capabilities.
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