The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
The Zilog Z80 processor, a foundational 8-bit chip, has reached its 50th anniversary. The article reflects on its massive influence on early personal computing and its surprising longevity in industrial applications.
As of writing, the Zilog Z80 processor was officially launched 50 years ago, in July of 1976, less than 4 years after the last human had walked on the moon, decades closer to WWII than to the present day, roughly at a half way point between the Kennedy assassination and the fall of the Berlin wall, closer to the Korean war than to 9/11 which is itself an event that happened a quarter of a century ago. (Sorry...)
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