<![endif] Search Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Home #access #branding ← Previous Next → #nav-single Posted on January 9, 2015 by Domipheus .entry-meta .entry-header A few months ago, I bid on several ‘box of surplus electronic components’ listings on ebay. My lab needed some more components and I saw some of the things I needed in the listing pictures, so thought I’d go for it. I won all of them, at pretty much my lowest bid price, and when I got the boxes was really happy (I paid ~£20 for >£200 of components, most sealed new). At the bottom of one box was a Zilog Z80 CPU, in 40-pin DIP. It’s a Z84C0008PEC, designed to run at 8MHz. It looked pristine, but was not sealed, and it sat in my junk box for quite some time. Last month I won a contest at Pimoroni (check them out, they are awesome), where I received £100 in gift vouch...