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Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family (www.hackster.io)
submitted 9 months ago by floofloof to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Someone’s going to end up making an adapter for the new variants to plug into a DIP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Does someone still make 6502s, or have they been discontinued as well?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

depends on what form factor you need

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

ok, thats just really cool. 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

now i want one just to fuck around with it.

good thing it cant be used as a drop in replacement for the original, or else i would want an apple II too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, The 6502c is still in production.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I’ve heard this as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The firm carrying the torch for thr 6502/65816 runs out of an office the size of a large house on a largely residential street in a suburb of Phoenix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

@AllNewTypeFace @floofloof

I think they are still used in medical equipment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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