Reference STATE OF THE ART Stan Augarten
ISBN 0-89919-195-9
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1976
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One of the Most Popular 8-bit Microprocessors
The Z-80
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The Z-80
Several Z-80s are seen here on a wafer, a chessboard-like slice of silicon that contains hundreds of chips. Wafers are cut up into separate ICs and place into individual packages, which are then plugged into circuit boards. The Z-80 can control up to 64K bytes of memory and add two 8-bit numbers in one millionth of a second; it multiplies by repeated addition. The purple color is the result of a bright light being shone onto the wafer. Actual size of the Z-80: 0.157 x 0.167 inches.

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