Its been the news lately, that the original Z80 will finally cease production this year. While lots of news outlets used it as an excuse to publish a list of Z80 based machines, none of them looked at how Zilog and the Z80 came to be. So lets look at how Zilog came to be, and the CPU they created.
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00:00 - Intro
00:57 - A word from our sponsor
01:29 - Federico Faggin
03:37 - Things happen at Intel
07:15 - People leave Intel
08:43 - CP/M
11:56 - None CP/M Z80 machines
13:38 - Micro trainers, and the Microbeast
21:23 - What happened to Zilog & the Z8000
25:36 - The Z800
27:31 - Why IBM did not pick the Z80 for the PC
34:23 - Thanks
