Z80 has turned 50. My Amstrad CPC 128 had a Z80, it was where I learned assembly. I can't help the nostalgia for a time when young me was discovering the beauty of being able to control my computer at the lowest level, to read and write directly from and to the video RAM, to jump around memory addresses. Locomotive BASIC (Amstrad's version of BASIC), and Turbo Pascal (when I booted in CP/M) were nice, but the empowerment of writing code in assembly was a class of its own. Today, I ask AI to write most of my code; we've gone such a long way...