The Z80 was a big deal in the 1970s and 1980s ... are useful for finding undocumented or edge case performance of a processor. If this hack isn’t enough Zilog for your liking, consider throwing ...
It was called the Z80 SoftCard, and it was first released 43 years ago this month, on April 2, 1980. In an even more ironic twist, the product was made as an add-in card for the Apple II PC.
The RC2014 is a modular 8-bit computer in which daughter cards containing RAM, ROM, serial interface, clock, and Z80 processor are ranged on a backplane board, allowing complete understanding of ...
It was an 8-bit processor, not too dissimilar to the Zilog Z80 chip that I'd spent many years programming before getting a PC. There was a good reason for that similarity: Both processors were ...
Initially, it used the popular Zilog Z80 processor, and several successors followed over the next few years. In 1983, the Model 4 got a faster Zilog Z80A CPU and a larger display. The 3D-printable ...
Modeled after the Xerox NoteTaker designed by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1976, the Osborne 1 launched at a cost of $1,795 featuring a 5-inch display, a Zilog Z80 clocked at 4.0MHz, 64KB of RAM ...