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Nov 5, 2026
Oskar MencerGUEST
And so this is how it all started.
Oskar MencerGUEST
And just today, I had the tremendous honor to meet somebody who was part of the Zilog team that built the Zilog Z80 that was in that computer.
Oskar MencerGUEST
So that was a surprise for me this morning.
Oskar MencerGUEST
So this is how it all started with instructions.
John HennessyGUEST
HP was there.
John HennessyGUEST
There were a few other, and the semiconductor companies, Intel and Zilog and others, National.
John HennessyGUEST
But there really wasn't much in the computer field at that time.
John HennessyGUEST
And it wasn't until the set of companies that were built in the 80s, well, Apple first, but then the set of companies that were built in the 80s that really created a major swing.
Harry GarlandGUEST
Engineers who were working there in those offices, we had lunch with them at the same Chinese restaurant.
Harry GarlandGUEST
And that little company was called Zilog.
Harry GarlandGUEST
And Xilog was developing a better microprocessor than the 8080.
Harry GarlandGUEST
And Roger had the idea of, well, suppose we could go into Altair, take out the 8080 board and plug in a Z80 board.
Chris FlemingHOST
And then in August of 1977, there was a press conference in New York City.
Chris FlemingHOST
The TRS-80 dropped with a Zilog Z80 chip, 4 kilobytes of RAM, a monitor, and more importantly, a price working people could reach.
Chris FlemingHOST
And Radio Shack? They thought they might sell a few thousand a year.
Chris FlemingHOST
They sold 10,000 in the first six weeks.
Tom NardiHOST
Boys, speaking of retro computers, news this week, Littlefuse announces the retirement of the EZ80.
Tom NardiHOST
I guess Zilog stopped making its Z80, but company called Littlefuse bought their trademark and made an EZ80 microcontroller.
Tom NardiHOST
Same big old footprint as the old Z80.
Tom NardiHOST
But now Littlefuse sent out an end-of-life notice, which means they're gonna stop producing them, which means the Z80's days are numbered.
Elliot WilliamsHOST
I, I guess if you, if you wanna have a brand-new one in, in the original packaging for your collection, now might be the time.
Elliot WilliamsHOST
But I, I, I hazard to guess that you will n- not have a problem actually finding the parts for the foreseeable future.
Tom NardiHOST
Oh my God, I didn't realize Zilog was making them that late.
Tom NardiHOST
Looking through Hackaday, Maya Posh wrote up a piece in July this year remembering the Zilog-