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Posted at 12:41 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by monkeyslayer56

Needs to be wired with enamelled wire rather than plastic coated greyness for it to be proto board porn!

Posted at 12:48 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by James

I love how much detail he put into this and how all he did was reuse old parts ^^

Posted at 12:56 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by OrderZero

I agree with James. As a young engineer I built many proto boards with Vero wire. Shame I didn’t keep any photos!

Posted at 1:03 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by yellowduck

Wow.

Incredible labor of love.

Posted at 1:16 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

A friend of mine built one of these a while ago, though he used a modified BBC Basic setup for the OS rather than a completely custom one. http://benryves.com/projects/z80computer

Posted at 1:19 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by Jonimus

How does he reprogram the arduino?

Posted at 3:04 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by Huh

haha an arduino joke, you’re funny as hell. no really, stop shitting up the comments you cunt.

Posted at 4:17 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by devin

seriously they finally post something worth while and you make an arduino joke. Plus the z80 is way better than the arduino anyway. :P

Posted at 4:37 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by Jonimus

Hurrah for the Z80! :-D

Posted at 5:09 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by Ben Ryves

Can it run CP/M?

Posted at 9:19 pm on Sep 7th, 2009 by nave.notnilc

@devin Reminded of the special olympics much? Your still a retard!

Posted at 12:17 am on Sep 8th, 2009 by Huh

@ nave.notnilc
It probably could run CP/M with a little bit of tweakery, although it could really do with 64k to do it comfortably – especially if it’s going to be networked.
I still miss my old TRS80/II that ran something very similar to CP/M on a z80 with 64k…

Posted at 1:10 am on Sep 8th, 2009 by Richard

Z80 Rulez. +1 for the post and protoz80 owner gets +10

Posted at 1:12 am on Sep 8th, 2009 by CodeASM

I like the image you have posted here.

Posted at 4:26 am on Sep 8th, 2009 by eye

Ahh, the memories… Did this with a Z80A when I was 13 years old on a blue 22/44 protoboard using bits of 25-pair telco wire, so mine was much more colorful… :)

Posted at 9:40 am on Sep 8th, 2009 by Hitek146

I’ve soldered my ZX-81 kit in those days. You wrestled a different kind of monster, so I call you Sir.

Posted at 11:11 am on Sep 8th, 2009 by Ragnar

is it possible to connect it to an arduino?

Posted at 1:29 pm on Sep 8th, 2009 by jan

i have an old ti-81 graphing calculator with a z-80 any hacks for it any one know

Posted at 9:02 pm on Oct 31st, 2009 by jadon