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Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family (www.hackster.io)
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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Does someone still make 6502s, or have they been discontinued as well?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

depends on what form factor you need

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

ok, thats just really cool. 👍

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Nice

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

now i want one just to fuck around with it.

good thing it cant be used as a drop in replacement for the original, or else i would want an apple II too.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, The 6502c is still in production.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I’ve heard this as well.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

The firm carrying the torch for thr 6502/65816 runs out of an office the size of a large house on a largely residential street in a suburb of Phoenix.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Someone’s going to end up making an adapter for the new variants to plug into a DIP.

[–] diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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