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Z80 for me, take that, ha!
6502 was my poison.
Mine too, just after Z80. Then 68000 (later plus add-on 286 board) and only after it was a pure 386.
From my understanding, Z80 was already on the way out on desktop by the time I was born. 😆
We'd managed to snag a second-hand i186-based PC, with integrated green-and-black screen and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. Most useless excuse for a computer you ever did see; good luck trying to take notes with
edlinon DOS any faster than just writing them down. Super-futuristic looking, though - predated the iMac by over twenty years.Remember getting a ZX Spectrum for Xmas and being astonished that computers could actually display colour and play games. Z80 for the win.
Those were 80186? Cool, never saw one. I did some computing at school's 8086 PC, though.