The History of Zilog & Z80
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. For those of you interested in the Microbeast, or the Videobeast, https://feertech.com/microbeast/ This video is sponsored by http://www.pcbway.com 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
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