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It would be interesting to know Zilog's sale volumes for discrete Z80s (say, over the past decade). What uses they were purchased for, and DIP/PLCC/flatpack rat
by RetroTechie 2y ago
It would be interesting to know Zilog's sale volumes for discrete Z80s (say, over the past decade). What uses they were purchased for, and DIP/PLCC/flatpack ratios.
There must be millions floating out there. But with distributors like Mouser or Farnell gone, for anyone looking to buy some, it's eBay & co which tends to be a crapshoot.
- lelanthran 2y ago> It would be interesting to know Zilog's sale volumes for discrete Z80s (say, over the past decade). Not the past decade, but two decades ago (2005) the z80 was still popular. At work, I was working on a product based on, IIRC, a Rabbit Semiconductor product, which was a module with on-chip ethernet. It was a Z80 running at 40Mhz. Personally, I also had a little siemens organiser thing, that also was z80 based (not sure of the actual specs). I recall trying to write programs for it and failing (may not have been open; no way to reprogram or download new code to it, maybe). [EDIT: The organiser was a siemens IC35]