PainfulDiodes
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Messing about with 1980’s style microelectronics
Project for 2026… finally turning my designs from the last year or two into a stand-alone Z80 personal computer: “BeanDeck” - 10MHz Z80, 32K ROM, 32K RAM, keyboard, cartridge storage and colour graphics display, and maybe even an enclosure…
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BeanDeck: Z80 Cyberdeck
When I started dabbling in 8-bit electronics a couple of years ago, it wasn’t long before I remembered my teenage dream of building a Z80 computer. A computer with a real keyboard, a graphic …
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January 23, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Project for 2026… finally turning my designs from the last year or two into a stand-alone Z80 personal computer: “BeanDeck” - 10MHz Z80, 32K ROM, 32K RAM, keyboard, cartridge storage and colour graphics display, and maybe even an enclosure…
painfuldiodes.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/b...
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