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Is anyone interested with the Z80?

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COMPACT over 10 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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    rob1512 over 7 years ago

    I have a couple but I'm working with the z80b.  I have everything working with a manual clock along with a555 time clock running at 20 hz. Above that it is too fast to figure out what itit  doing .  The can oscillator i have is a 7.something. It will drive a baud generator on a serial interface, but I think it is too fast for the 6850.  I have a z8470 dart too and ordered a few things last night.  I might try timing a 555 timer to generate a baud need nothin more than 2400 or even 1200 at the moment.  I'm not sure how exact the baud generator needs to be to work with a terminal.

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    dougw over 7 years ago in reply to rob1512

    What type of terminal?

    Early terminals were 300 baud.

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    rob1512 over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    300 baud would not be too bad to start.  30sec to load a 1k program is faster than popping rom out programming it and putting it back in. 

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    Problemchild over 7 years ago in reply to COMPACT

    Apparently that awful clock voltage gives all sorts of problems in old spectrums.

    Anyway not sure if that what was specified or just what it would put up with!?!

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    Problemchild over 7 years ago in reply to COMPACT

    Apparently that awful clock voltage gives all sorts of problems in old spectrums.

    Anyway not sure if that what was specified or just what it would put up with!?!

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