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Is anyone interested with the Z80?

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 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 over 9 years ago +6

This is the circuit I made boards for sometime back to get people playing with them:
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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clem57 over 9 years ago

Yes, but what to do? Run CPM.
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COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

If you just want to run CP/m then build my mbed virtual machine. It supports video output, USB peripherals with SDCards!
Ladder is a great game to play with it.

For its time, I found that the Z80 was an excellent tuition tool.
To get the best results one had to design and build their own hardware and not just use it.
That fun doesn't occur with premade SMT microcontrollers.
One had to experience the aha moments and fails along the way.
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COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

If you just want to run CP/m then build my mbed virtual machine. It supports video output, USB peripherals with SDCards!
Ladder is a great game to play with it.

For its time, I found that the Z80 was an excellent tuition tool.
To get the best results one had to design and build their own hardware and not just use it.
That fun doesn't occur with premade SMT microcontrollers.
One had to experience the aha moments and fails along the way.
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dougw over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT

Is your virtual machine documented anywhere we can access?
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COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to dougw

Yep!
NXP mbed Design Challenge
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dougw over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT

Awesome!
I'll have to show my brother - he still has a Z80 CP/M monster with dual 8 inch floppies.
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