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On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 9:37 AM, Scott Hall via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My first computer in 1978 was a Heathkit H8 with an 8080 CPU running at 4.5 MHz. Other than the Intel interrupt controller and the CPU all the other chips were capable of faster speeds, so I replaced the interrupt controller and the clock divider and dropped a Z80C when it was available in to goose it up to 8 MHz. When I got my Heathkit H150 (an IBM XT clone) I immediately got an AST 8080 coprocessing board with no CPU that I also dropped in a Z80C - so that I could run my CPM software from the H8 on the H150 from within MS-DOS.<div><br></div><div>Around that time (1983) our microprocessors class lab was getting ready to retire its old Intel Prompt '80s, and so for extra credit several of us dropped in Z80Bs and did a couple of experiments with the extended instruction set. (Completing the lab got you an A, I don't know why several of us were compelled to do extra credit other than we completed the lab well before the end of the semester.)</div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly by that time I was already taking Commodore VIC-20 motherboards (6502 CPU) and C64 motherboards (6510 CPU) and mounting them on rack panels, burning my own EPROMs (the UV-erase type), and using the cartridge port to control radio station equipment and perform numerous functions in the studio. I found the 6500-series easier to program for than the Z80, but the drivers for the periphery harder to figure out.</div><div><br></div><div>- sgh</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:28 AM Mike Lisanke via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Z80 was the first (of many CPUs) I had in my earliest personal computer. And I had it about 45 years ago! <div>That PC was the Exidy Sorcerer. And I used many other CPUs of the time in SBCs. And eventually did a lot with 6502 in Atari. </div><div>I suspect they only end a CPUs life when the last integrator stops using it. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong dir="auto" class="gmail_sendername">jong kung via <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.io" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">groups.io</a></strong> <span dir="auto"><jongkung01=<a target="_blank" href="mailto:hotmail.com@groups.io" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">hotmail.com@groups.io</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:10 AM<br>Subject: [electronics101] Z80 discontinued (announced in April)<br>To: <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:electronics101@groups.io" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">electronics101@groups.io</a>><br></div><br><br>Hi guys,<br>
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I’m sure many of you already heard. But I just heard this and I thought I’ll pass it on.<br>
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<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html">https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html</a><br>
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The post was made in April 2024. I knew some variant of 6502 was still being made but I didn’t know z80 was being made (until now).<br>
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