We will need to calculate ballistics tables for our trebuchets in order to lay siege to neighboring towns.
There is no end to post apocalyptic fiction but usually it's set fairly soon after the collapse, or the technology uncovered is mysterious and futuristic.
Good chance I'm outing myself as an infrequent reader of science fiction asking this!
I think for its chosen niche, the key qualities are (1) low power draw and (2) the ability to boot and be usable with no on-disk storage. The z80 system has that, but you could build something much more powerful. Burn the OS into a rom, have it copy into ram at boot.
Eternity Road, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128533.Eternity_Road