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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The first Copilot+ PC has been tested and it destroys the
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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 07:20:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-27, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2024 02:02:50 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I didn't know they were still being made. The Zilog headquarters used to
>> be right up the road in Nampa, Idaho. (That building hasn't been Zilog
>> for quite a while now.)
>
> I was surprised that they didn't drop it when the eZ80 came out. That's 
> still in production but it's SMC only.
>
> The 40 DIP form factor lives on. The Pico, Arduino Sense BLE, and others 
> preserve the layout except it's now a circuit board with other components 
> on board. Solder on headers and it plugs into a solderless breadboard.
>
> If I really want to go old school I still have wirewrap sockets rather 
> than using Dupont wires. 

I don't need to go that old. If I was younger I might be interested in 
reviving old computers (ones I used to use). Not so much anymore.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine