Even if you don't have the brain power to concentrate on this stuff, the books are still fun to read as they demonstrate examples.? A few times, I would hang out with my friend Walter, and we would bring out some BYTE or old Popular Electronics magazines and just read through articles, pointing out some interesting hind sight observations.? I'm looking forward to my retirement years!
On Monday, May 10, 2021, 10:46:16 a.m. EDT, Bill in OKC too via groups.io <wmrmeyers@...> wrote:
You can find a lot of them as PDF files on archive.org, along with a lot of the other classic computer & programming books. Zak's, Osbourne, and others,? tech manuals from the manufacturers, etc.
I don't know if I have the brainpower to actually use them anymore, but have downloaded a bunch of them myself.
Bill in OKC
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Monday, May 10, 2021, 08:49:42 AM CDT, saturn5tony via groups.io <saturn5tony@...> wrote:
On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 10:28 PM, joshbensadon wrote:
You can only truly appreciate the Z80 when you start using the Repetitive Copy and Compare instructions.?
?
Are you reading any books on the Zed-80?
?
Hi Josh, I dont remember that instruction, but I know it had quite a few more that were better than the old 8080 as well as an improved register set. I know that the HW took the 3 power supplies from 3 down to 5V only. Really great for that time. IIRC I think that is why Intel came out with the 8085? Wow so many years ago, I am mixing up what they did back then. As I read frm down below, I also mixed up the company names as well. LOL!! I think I was on the 6800 - 6502 path in my mind, not on the 8080 - Z80 path. So many things happened back then. Now so little memory left of what happened as well I believe. HEHE--thank God I am not a writer of computer history and such! lol As far as books, all I have left relating to the Z80 was the one I got back in the early 80's called "the Z80 microcomputer handbook" by Wlliam Barden jr. I read a bit of it back then when were designing a computer system for a new product that were making but went to the 8048, 8031 and other MCS51 stuff for our final design. I was not into home pc's back then so much for my career but into more controller applications that we were doing. MCS51 rocked the world for us. Home use I went from 1802 and 6502 stuff. Why, I really have no idea. I guess I just liked them all.
|
