While most people who build their own computer from chips want the finished product to do something useful, there’s something to be said about a huge bank of switches and a bunch of blinkenlights.

The project creates a Z80 computer which provides the possibility of producing a video board that utilizes TV as the monitor. There are two boards, CPU and video, that comprise the machine and a ...

[Joshua Coleman] likes to design his own computers. Sometimes, that means drawing up bus architectures, memory maps and I/O port pinouts. Other times, he can focus his efforts more on the general ...

The news makes nerds wistful: production of the Z80 processor, one of the most versatile 8-bit processors ever, is being discontinued after almost 48 years. The manufacturer announced the end of ...