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Hi, editor here: 1.) We missed a digit when adding in the number for inflation. It was a mispaste. (We had $112, the actual number was $1127.) We will correct

Hi, editor here: 1.) We missed a digit when adding in the number for inflation. It was a mispaste. (We had $112, the actual number was $1127.) We will correct this. Our apologies. 2.) Matt pulled from a similar source (the oral history of the Z80), which may reflect some of the similarity in ordering. That said, you are correct, and is a bit too similar for my liking. We are going to make some changes on this section and will make a note on this front. I should note though that this article has many more elements to it than this one passage, and discusses a wide array of topics. 3.) There are three ads on the entire page for a 2,000+-word article. It’s a newsletter, so one is embedded in the article as a sponsorship. The other two are from BuySellAds, and are otherwise minimal. I encourage you to compare that to the number currently on this random article I just pulled from Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/extreme-heat-solar-energy-clean-energy-solution-1851477599 https://gizmodo.com/extreme-heat-solar-energy-clean-energy-s... As far as your “AI generated” claim: That is incredibly rude. Please, read the rest of our articles and tell me where we generate AI. I appreciate your criticism up to the point about the AI generation. That is not fair to Matt, it is not fair to myself as his editor, and it is not the way I want this website perceived. Please, do not bandy around such claims like that offhand. It harms independent publishers that are actually doing the work. Don’t blame on bots what can be better blamed on humans trying their best to get it right and stumbling a little.

theogravity 2y ago
Glad to hear it's not AI-generated. The inflation number being lower instead of higher was extremely odd and AI is generally bad at math. The paragraph mentioned was very close to the Wikipedia entry in sequence. After seeing that, I stopped reading shortly after and decided to just read the Wikipedia entry instead. Re: the ads - they blend too much into the article that it was hard to distinguish between an ad and not which is probably why it felt like there were many ads. Sorry about that. You're right, after spending time discerning between an ad section and image there aren't many ads at all.
- mattl 2y ago
  An awful lot of the Z80 Wikipedia article seems to be taken from oral history transcript. I hope you’ll read the whole thing as there’s a lot more to it than that and I asked a number of people for their personal history with the chip and I’ve been using a Z80-based machine for most of my life so there’s a lot of personal history in there too.
  - theogravity 2y ago
    I'll give it my attention. Thanks for giving some background info.
- shortformblog 2y ago
  You may be reacting to the fact that the actual content is broken out into numbers and quotes—that is a house style of ours, and we’ve used it for many years. More broadly, I would encourage you to be careful about claiming things are AI-generated vs. not. You perhaps saw it as a minor thing. I did not. It is a bad time for actual writers and editors and is seen as a claim of impropriety in media circles. It threatens our work. I reacted strongly to it because, honestly, being seen seriously is a real point of concern. I hope that makes sense.
  - theogravity 2y ago
    It does. Sorry, I didn't realize my claims would carry such impact. I definitely want to support the work of creatives and will be much more careful from now on.
jhbadger 2y ago
And although the Z80 was popular, that $200 cost was non-trivial. Probably the whole reason the 8-bit world was split between the Z80 and the 6502 was that the 6502 was much cheaper.
darig 2y ago
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theogravity 2y ago

Glad to hear it's not AI-generated. The inflation number being lower instead of higher was extremely odd and AI is generally bad at math. The paragraph mentioned was very close to the Wikipedia entry in sequence. After seeing that, I stopped reading shortly after and decided to just read the Wikipedia entry instead. Re: the ads - they blend too much into the article that it was hard to distinguish between an ad and not which is probably why it felt like there were many ads. Sorry about that. You're right, after spending time discerning between an ad section and image there aren't many ads at all.

mattl 2y ago
An awful lot of the Z80 Wikipedia article seems to be taken from oral history transcript. I hope you’ll read the whole thing as there’s a lot more to it than that and I asked a number of people for their personal history with the chip and I’ve been using a Z80-based machine for most of my life so there’s a lot of personal history in there too.
- theogravity 2y ago
  I'll give it my attention. Thanks for giving some background info.
shortformblog 2y ago
You may be reacting to the fact that the actual content is broken out into numbers and quotes—that is a house style of ours, and we’ve used it for many years. More broadly, I would encourage you to be careful about claiming things are AI-generated vs. not. You perhaps saw it as a minor thing. I did not. It is a bad time for actual writers and editors and is seen as a claim of impropriety in media circles. It threatens our work. I reacted strongly to it because, honestly, being seen seriously is a real point of concern. I hope that makes sense.
- theogravity 2y ago
  It does. Sorry, I didn't realize my claims would carry such impact. I definitely want to support the work of creatives and will be much more careful from now on.

jhbadger 2y ago

And although the Z80 was popular, that $200 cost was non-trivial. Probably the whole reason the 8-bit world was split between the Z80 and the 6502 was that the 6502 was much cheaper.

darig 2y ago

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