SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

Re:SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System by bluejekyll on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:25AM (#16079539)

The Z80 will always have a place in my heart. Mostly because we used it in college to build a computer from scratch on a wire board. That was an awesome project, and one of the classes that I remember fondly from nearly 18 years ago.

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Re:SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System by pkaye on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:00PM (#16082851)

We did a similar thing with an 8086 processors around the same time. I only wish we did more of coding firmware rather than all the time designing the wireboard and circuits.

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Re:SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System by stevekemp on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:42AM (#16085990)

Mine too, largely because it was the first computer I ever owned - the ZX Spectrum (48k), circa 1982.

One of the most popular home computers in the UK at the time, and with good reason.

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Re:SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System by wolfgke on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:17PM (#16079904)

What year was that?

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Re:SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System by delinka on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:11PM (#16080354)

2018 - 18 = 2000

Maybe 1999 since the fact that it's 2018 is still maybe too fresh to have imprinted on many minds.

Maybe 2001 since GP says "nearly 18 years."

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Re:SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System by bluejekyll on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:36PM (#16080543)

I think it was my last semester of college, so it would have been the first half of 2000.

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