These editions are about 20 years apart

A System For The Sixties: The RCA Studio II

https://nicole.express/2024/radio-keith-orpheum.html

Very interesting talk by Sophie Wilson about the future of microprocessors.
#sophiewilson #microprocessors
https://youtu.be/MkbgZMCTUyU

Felt just a bit sad about this news. The #Z80 was the second microprocessor that I ever coded #assembly on after the Intel x86. I remember burning an EPROM with a Z80 program that controlled the brightness level of an LED in one of my early practical microprocessor exercises in college.

https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html

Despite rumours of its demise, it would seem that #MooresLaw still holds.

#informationtechnology
#microprocessors
#microchips
#computing

I resent that my interest in microprocessors has finally pushed me to be interested in coding. I mean it sounds silly probably. But it's true. Hated coding. Never got my college degree in part because I hated coding. And that was an engineering degree! But it's kinda everywhere, isn't it? Even as a Network Admin, I could benefit from scripting and outright coding. So I'm gonna be working on that. But as to the microprocessors, there are lots of cool pre-built frameworks that just do stuff when you hook up things to a microprocessor. Sensors. Lights. Stuff. Really easy straight-forward stuff. But if I want it to do the things I want it to do, I gotta figure out how to code it. Or gotta figure out how to tear apart someone else's code that isn't doing what I want, and making it do what I want instead. And of course paying it forward with credit.

So guess I'm falling down that rabbit hole now...