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Is anyone interested with the Z80?

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COMPACT over 9 years ago

The Z80 is still manufactured today and I was wondering whether there is any interest for a community or discussion group.

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  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT +9
    Here's some of the books I learnt about Z80 from, I donated them to the Cambridge computer history museum last year.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 9 years ago +6
    This is the circuit I made boards for sometime back to get people playing with them:
  • gdstew
    gdstew over 8 years ago in reply to COMPACT +6
    I worked at Mostek maintaining the Fairchild Sentry testers used to test the Z80s when they first began to manufacturer them. The second computer I every built (parts, pcb, solder) was the SDB-80 which…
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    COMPACT over 8 years ago

    Did you know that the Z80 has different memory access timings for instruction fetches and standard memory accesses?

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    gdstew over 8 years ago in reply to COMPACT

    I worked at Mostek maintaining the Fairchild Sentry testers used to test the Z80s when they first began to manufacturer them. The second computer I every

    built (parts, pcb, solder) was the SDB-80 which was the Mostek Software Development Board for the Z80 with 16K bytes (8 - MK4116 16K bit) dynamic RAMs

    which Mostek also made. The first wire wrap board I ever made was a 48K byte dynamic RAM board also using MK4116s that worked with the SDB-80. I can

    tell you there were a bunch of happy technicians when we were told that Mostek would be second sourcing the Z-80 and even happier when we were told we

    could buy SDB-80 kits and build them ourselves! Those were really fun days. I still have a Zilog Z80 in a ceramic package that says it was manufactured in

    Dallas even though Mostek was actually in Carrollton a suburb in Dallas County just north of north-west Dallas.

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 8 years ago in reply to gdstew

    Are you still in the Dallas area. So am I.

    Clem

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    COMPACT over 8 years ago in reply to gdstew

    Wow! that's amazing that you got such a large DRAM board working with Wire-wrap.

    Do you still have any photos or schematics of it?

     

    It was quite rare to come across Mostek parts in Australia. We usually got Zilog, SGS and Sharp.

    And from memory the SGS parts didn't support the undocumented instructions.

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  • gdstew
    gdstew over 8 years ago in reply to clem57

    Yep, lived here all my life (more years than I want to admit to).

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    gdstew over 8 years ago in reply to clem57

    Yep, lived here all my life (more years than I want to admit to).

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