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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…
  • dougw
    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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    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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  • dougw
    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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  • WarrenW
    WarrenW over 9 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    Safety Applications?

    What would you be looking at doing? Most off the shelf safety controllers used in industrial applications that require certification (very few safety applications don't!) are dual processors with watchdogs to each from each to ensure that it all behaves according to plan.

     

    If you want to certify this application for use then there is a very long road ahead to get certification to the relevant standards.

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    D_Hersey over 9 years ago

    Let's think forward rather than backward; I'll take an octonion vector processor, THX!

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  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

    That's a rather limited numerical use machine.

     

    A Z80 made from only 8,500 210GHz SiGe transistors is no slouch (with many of those transistors are just acting as resistors).

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    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to WarrenW

    So what's watching the watchdogs, and what's watching the watchdog's watchdogs, and what's watching the watchdog's watchdog's watchdog?.....

     

    A zap of uncontrolled ESD can put it all at risk.

     

    How did Toyota and other car manufacturers get some of their code so wrong to cause safety issues?

    MISRA standards are only a starting point.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 9 years ago

    I would have an interest in such a discussion. I still build with them and have since the 70s. Still have handfuls of them to play with. Have made several dev. boards also.(I realize this is a very old post)

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    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    That's fantastic!

     

    I found the Z80 to be an absolutely perfect tuition aid as you didn't need a computer to build a computer.

    (However a PROM programmer comes in quite handy!)

     

    The most simple Z80 configuration doesn't require any external memory and can blink LEDS and can also run as a pausable and resettable binary counter.

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