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Here's an interesting fact that I didn't know until very recently: the original 40-PIN DIP Z80 is still made today, by Zilog:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zilog/Z84C0008PEG...

I guess we're still living in the 8-bit era, technically. ;)

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Western Design Center (Bill Mensch's firm) still offers physical 6502/65816 and supporting chips, too: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Western-Design-Center-W...

(Most of his money is made in licensing the soft core, but I love that he continues to support the hobbyist market by making ridiculously obsolete 40-pin PDIPs!)

I suppose old hardware restoration falls under the “hobbyist” label?

Absolutely!

Zilog make loads of 8 bit microprocessors still: https://www.mouser.co.uk/c/semiconductors/embedded-processor...

65C02 is under $2 on AliExpress.

Slightly off topic I suppose, but RISC-V CH32V003 https://github.com/cnlohr/rv003usb is $ 0.10 https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804850399956.html?gateway...

Crazy.

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