Building basic computers from the ground up is a popular pastime in the hacker community. [Kevin] is one such enthusiast, and decided to whip up a video interface for his retro Z80 machine. The output ...

If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his old kit inside out, and his talk on the CIDCO MailStation ...

Remember when... Chances are that even if you are an old computing geezer like myself, you've never heard of Natural Access to Bi-directional Utilities (NABU Network), otherwise shortened to NABU. It ...

Very few retrocomputing projects are anything other than a labor of love. There’s really no practical reason to build a computer that is woefully inadequate for just about any task compared to even an ...

Really cool read. The z80 was everywhere in the 80s. Colecovision, game gear, TI calculators (all things I had). Game boy was not quite a z80 but something kind of similar. The article mentioned the ...

Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on June 14, 2024. The 8-bit ...