The Z80 is still manufactured today and I was wondering whether there is any interest for a community or discussion group.
The Z80 is still manufactured today and I was wondering whether there is any interest for a community or discussion group.
A Z80 is still in production (incredible 
) this guy has done an incredibly great job :The Z80 Membership Card Computer
Enrico
It is what I was thinking reading this. Maybe I can plan to put this topic in one of my next articles. But it is possible that when I can do this Z89 is no longer in production 
Enrico
If you want to build a small real Z80 system then you could just deploy a single Zilog Z84C15 Highly Integrated Z80 IPC (Integrated Peripheral Controller).
It has inbuilt SIO, CTC and PIO and runs at 16Mhz
Just add RAM, Flash and your desired electrical interfaces - The pictured system has TCP/IP Ethernet capabilities, runs CP/M, has two true RS232 ports, 2 PIO parallel ports and some Timer Counters .
Alternatively you could use an eZ80 which can run at 50MHz with single cycle instruction fetch.
