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Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform
- mindcrime 8y agoHah! I've been on HN for a long damn time, and this may take the cake as the single coolest thing I've ever seen posted here. I just ordered myself a Mailstation (found one for $15.00 on Amazon), and am champing at the bit to get my hands on this thing. I'd started a project to build a Z-80 based retrocomputer a while back, and frankly got stalled out due to being busy with other projects... so the idea of a nice, inexpensive Z-80 computer that I can (mostly) just plug in and play with is very enticing. That it has a full QWERTY keyboard is just icing on the cake. And truth be told, for something that old I'd say it's pretty attractive stylistically as well. Whoever designed this thing (from an industrial design viewpoint) did a really nice job.