For seven months, [Bernardo Kastrup] at [TheByteAttic] has been realizing his childhood dream of building his own computer. It was this dream that steered him into the field of computer design at the ...

Our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] is known for being the mind behind the Commodore 128, a machine which famously had both a 6502 and a Z80 processor on board. The idea of a machine which could do the ...

Isn't the entire point of breadboarding to see how a circuit design works in practice before putting in the effort to create a (potentially flawed) PCB around it? Click to expand... True, but usually ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from TechWorld. A team of chip archaeology enthusiasts is making headway on “imaging” for posterity the hugely-influential but now little-understood ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

So, I'm curious about the Intel aspect of this. . . The 8-bit Z80 microprocessor was designed in 1974 by Federico Faggin as a binary-compatible, improved version of the Intel 8080 with a higher clock ...