Modern Hardware

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 There are several “new” Z-80 machines out there. 

Small Computer Central has three varieties:
  • Modular backplane and cards.  The backplanes come in a few sizes:
    • RCBus 40-pin (standard RC2014 bus)
    • RCBus 80-pin (extended RC2014 bus)
    • Z50Bus (LiNC 50-pin)
  • Expandable single board computers (motherboards)
  • Non-expandable single board computers (SBC)
A good ROM bios for these systems is RomWBW.  This is customizable and can even have a bootable CP/M system disk in the ROM image. The project also has a large selection of CP/M software packaged up as disk images.

I am using the SC-131 the Z-180 Pocket Computer today to run all of the programming examples.  They also have systems with the Z-80 processor.

CPUVille,Designing, Building, and Selling Obsolete Computers -- for Educational Purposes -- since 2004 also has a Z-80 computer kit and accessories.

There are even GitHub repositories with new Z-180 systems being designed, such as YAZ180.

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