It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. This was the part that gave so many engineers and ...

The OneChipBook-12-A is a modern mini laptop design for retro computing. It’s the latest in a line of systems from 8086YES!

Although the 8080 CPU got a lot of glory, it was much harder to use than the Zilog Z80. The Z80 only required a single clock and power supply, so it was much easier to build a system, even on a ...

Those programs were not compatible with its processor. The Zilog Z80 was compatible with programs that ran on Intel 8080 CPUs. Allen believed that an add-in card for the Apple II would allow ...

It was an 8-bit processor, not too dissimilar to the Zilog Z80 chip that I'd spent many years programming before getting a PC. There was a good reason for that similarity: Both processors were ...

When the mini documentary mentioned that some of TI's calculators used 8-bit Zilog Z80 and 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPUs, it caught grubbycoder's attention. Those chips were also used by Sega's ...