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  1. @zwangseinweisung now that's an interesting contender! I didn't know the #Sega #Megadrive had a #Z80 in it! I know it as a #sixteenBit machine. According to Wikipedia, the Z80 was used to coordinate the sound chips:

    The main microprocessor is a 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU clocked at 7.6 MHz. An 8-bit Zilog Z80 processor controls the sound hardware and provides backward compatibility with the Master System.

    ...and:

    The Genesis produces sound using a Texas Instruments SN76489 programmable sound generator, integrated with the Video Display Processor (VDP), and a Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesizer chip. The Z80 processor is primarily used to control both sound chips to produce stereo music and sound effects.

    Thanks for mentioning this system!

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_G

  2. @jaruzel @StefanoGaivota interesting! To me, #retrocomputing covers early #eightbit (and #sixteenbit) personal computers, and #vintagecomputing covers #mainframe, #minicomputer and #workstation machines (the latter category being composed of #LispMachines, graphical #unix workstations and of course the #XeroxParc machines).

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