The Z80, however, was a strange thing for me even though I had the Zaks books on assembly programming for 6502 and Z80. We continued to hack on the 68000 - the

The Z80, however, was a strange thing for me even though I had the Zaks books on assembly programming for 6502 and Z80. We continued to hack on the 68000 - the Atari ST series was very popular in Germany (the Amiga and Mac were much more expensive) - and some Motorola 6809 projects instead. I learned to love the Z80 last year when I built some ZX81 and Spectrum clones with my students. And now the Z80 is sadly discontinued while you can still buy new 6502s…