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Frog Pozzle's avatar

That poll widget is terrible — I can’t tell whether I was allowed to vote in the poll or not, or whether I did vote — I am a subscriber, but the poll is grayed out. I touched it (I’m on an iPad), and it immediately went to the results, and I have no idea whether my vote was registered or ignored. It seems to be indicating I voted for the Intel 8-bits, which was not what I wanted to vote for, but I can’t really tell.

For what it’s worth: IMHO, enough has been written (in incredible detail) elsewhere about the Intel 8008 and derivatives; I’d prefer to see a deep dive on any of the others. The 6809, F8, SC/MP all seem interesting. Z80 a bit less so, just because again it’s a very widely covered/emulated CPU.

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The Z80 was also big in at least the GDR (East Germany), not sure how many were exported to other East Bloc countries.

The GDR produced an unlicensed clone, the U880: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880

It was the CPU for GDR-made computers like the KC 85 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85) or the (office PC) PC1715 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_1715).

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