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The Z80 will always have a place in my heart. Mostly because we used it in college to build a computer from scratch on a wire board. That was an awesome project
by bluejekyll 9y ago
The Z80 will always have a place in my heart. Mostly because we used it in college to build a computer from scratch on a wire board.
That was an awesome project, and one of the classes that I remember fondly from nearly 18 years ago.
- wolfgke 9y agoWhat year was that?
- delinka 9y ago2018 - 18 = 2000 Maybe 1999 since the fact that it's 2018 is still maybe too fresh to have imprinted on many minds. Maybe 2001 since GP says "nearly 18 years."
- bluejekyll 9y agoI think it was my last semester of college, so it would have been the first half of 2000.
- pkaye 9y agoWe did a similar thing with an 8086 processors around the same time. I only wish we did more of coding firmware rather than all the time designing the wireboard and circuits.
- stevekemp 9y agoMine too, largely because it was the first computer I ever owned - the ZX Spectrum (48k), circa 1982. One of the most popular home computers in the UK at the time, and with good reason.