6502 versus Z80

muppet scott at asofyet.org
Tue Sep 19 04:40:16 BST 2006


On Sep 18, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> On 19 Sep 2006, at 00:44, muppet wrote:
>> And, incidentally, i learned to program on a Tandy Color Computer  
>> 2 with Microsoft Color BASIC.  Fortunately, puberty got in the way  
>> of me holding interest in the Z80 machine language... that, and  
>> lack of tools on the CoCo2 itself to write such programs.  (Peek  
>> and poke are a little too, um, raw for that purpose.)
>
> CoCo2 was 6809 no?

You are quite correct, unless you also wrote http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

Yaarr, i have been living a Z80 impostor lie.

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