John Hasler wrote:
Ahh the Z80 - I remember that chip fondly - a buddy and I built a family of machine control boxes around it (for photo processors), back in the late 1970s.I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a Selectric printer with homebrew electronics. The first computer I programmed was an IBM 1620 in the mid sixties, though. An odd machine.
It continually amazes me that the devices are still in production and widespread use. It could well be the most popular chip ever made for embedded applications.
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