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The Z80 was released in July 1976, about a year and a half after the 1975 Altair article<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book was released in 1981, about five years after the Z80 was released<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that 5 years, the z80 became very popular, and this book gave an incredible amount of technical and practical data on the Z80 and how to design circuits to make it a system, even if by todays standards the book presents some primitive designs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sure if 1981 is considered ‘early’ history of the microcomputer, but a lot of the small home computers were using the 6502, and there were other microprocessors available, the 6809, 8085, 8088, 8086<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home computer market appealed to the general public because you could buy a 1 size fits all computer, add peripherals and they were usable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Z80 was built into many ‘appliances’ in a microcontroller style, and most technical people were using the Z80 and it remained popular for a long time, and is still in use in the Gameboy handheld games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think most of the people interested in this are what we call today ‘techies’ or ‘geeks’ and technical people were the target of this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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