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   From: daniel_mandic@ping.at   
      
   Bruce Tomlin wrote:   
      
   > As many others have replied, there were plenty of Z80 computers with   
   > color.   
      
   Also the MC68000 and faster cousins.   
      
   >   
   > If anything, it had to do with the cost of the CPUs back in the day.   
   > In the '70s, many CPUs were relatively expensive (as much as $200),   
   > and you could only buy them in larger quantities like 1000 or more.   
      
   Yeah, the seventies.   
      
   >   
   > The 6502's success was in large part due to when it appeared at a   
   > computer show in the late '70s and was literally being sold right out   
   > of the shipping boxes for $25 each.  So it ended up becoming the   
   > choice for early "home" computers where price was important.  And the   
   > Z80 got used for "business" computers, particularly because it had   
   > CP/M available for it.   
      
   I know the Z80 for machine-code Arcade. Though its processing power   
   makes a good Home Computer. Low Budget, too.   
      
   >   
   > Later on when there wasn't a price premium for CPUs other than the   
   > 6502, the Z80 got used in all sorts of new budget computers.   
      
      
   You must be joking. The Z80 (and cousins with more MHz and special I/0   
   etc.) made the greatest turnover of all 8bit CPU´s. Konami, SEGA,   
   ATARI, Capcom, STERN, Nintendo, Nichibutsu, and so much more ....   
      
      
   Don´t say Sir Sinclair could know this all being, just out of   
   'Galaxians' - one of the first Z80 Games 1979 (3.072MHz, Sound Samples).   
   Maybe foreseen, but never known.   
      
   Just believe it. His choice to take a z80 was marvelous!   
      
      
      
   Well, the 68000 is a superb processor but already 32bit and not easy   
   for anyone but much more capable than i80386 and the rest of the   
   spaghetti-gang. The z80 is much easier, more effective (see industrial   
   integrations for the mighty Z80) and highly adaptable, due to   
   z80-design. Low Power Consumption, Silent, extendable, programmable and   
   so on.   
      
      
      
      
   Best Regards,   
      
   Daniel Mandic   
      
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