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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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COMPACT over 9 years ago

Did you know that the Texas Instruments TI-83 and Ti-84 calculators have Z80s in them?
In fact you can program them in Z80 assembly language.

There's also one with a 68000!
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clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT

Did you know the Intel 4004 processor and chipset of a total four chips were designed for the Busicom 141-PF printing calculator. The Story of the Intel 4004 to read more.
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clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT

Did you know the Intel 4004 processor and chipset of a total four chips were designed for the Busicom 141-PF printing calculator. The Story of the Intel 4004 to read more.
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COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

More accurately Intel had no idea of how to make the CPUs when they took on the job.
Intel had to hire Federico Faggin to obtain the necessary technology and skills.
Essentially Federico Faggin took just 9 months of 80 hour weeks to make them.

Wow what an accomplishment!!!

Since Intel didn't want to make CPUs Faggin left and started Zilog with a few of his mates.
Zilog's focus was actually the Z8 microcontroller and not the Z80.
Thank goodness the Z80 took off!
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