--- title: Remembering The Zilog Z80 As It Turns Fifty Years Old description: A retrospective on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor as it reaches its 50th anniversary in 2026. First released in July 1976, the Z80 powered home computers,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/remembering-the-zilog-z80-as-it-turns-fifty-years-old-okdyjqb4z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Remembering The Zilog Z80 As It Turns Fifty Years Old | daily.dev og:description: A retrospective on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor as it reaches its 50th anniversary in 2026. First released in July 1976, the Z80 powered home computers,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/remembering-the-zilog-z80-as-it-turns-fifty-years-old-okdyjqb4z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OKDYjQb4Z.png og:image:alt: Remembering The Zilog Z80 As It Turns Fifty Years Old og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Remembering The Zilog Z80 As It Turns Fifty Years Old **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A retrospective on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor as it reaches its 50th anniversary in 2026. First released in July 1976, the Z80 powered home computers, industrial controllers, and arcade systems before Littelfuse (Zilog's owner) discontinued the standalone processor and peripherals in 2024. Despite its end-of-life, the hobbyist community remains active — creating new operating systems, development toolchains, and demonstrating multitasking on the Z80. The architecture lives on in derivatives like the eZ80 SoC found in TI 84+ CE calculators. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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