Microprocessors From My Past

Here’s a list of microprocessors I was exposed to (chronologically) in the past:

6502  – a Commodore PET at a company I used to work at. Barely touched it.

6800 – Motorola D2 evaluation kit at University.

6802 – Motorola D3 evaluation kit I bought afterwards. Also did some wire wrapping of RAM and a cassette interface.

8088 – Bought an IBM PC in 1981. Wrote assembly programs for it. Later with 8087, including a Mandelbrot set based on a Scientific American article from 1985.

Z8000 – At a small computer startup. Unfortunately went bankrupt.

8080 – At a touch screen manufacturer.

Z80 – Same touch screen manufacturer.

68000 – Bought an Amiga 1000 in 1985. Wrote a 3d star program in assembler.

80X86 family – Various PC’s. Includes AMD Thunderbird, et al.

A few Microcontrollers for fun:

Arduino UNO/Nano/Pro Micro.

ESP8266, ESP32.

A few other things, such as Maple, Teensy, Raspberry Pi, Altera and Xilinx FPGA.

Minicomputers, servers, workstations and Operating Systems not included.

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