A try to map the landscape of retrocomputing.

• doing really old stuff (software) - emulators and running FORTRAN, COBOL etc. on them, maybe even assembly - hercules (IBM /370 etc.), PDP/11 and VAX
• upping the ante - doing the same on real hardware (expensive!)
• doing it on old personal computers (Apple II, homecomputer revolution)
• modern helpers (arduino like on the Z80-MB2 or FPGAs emulating chips that can’t be bought and hardware that was unreliable in its day and dead today)
• trying out old processors and doing “something” with them
• re-imagining old hardware (running CP/M on the Z80-MBC2 and the “new” Commodore 64, also “new” Spectrum ZX builds)
• death of the Z80
• 6502 is still alive
• 68000 can still be bought, but isn’t produced in DIP packages anymore
• spinning rust and SD/SSD
• what’s the point - fun, learning about digital electronics, more accessible than microcontrollers
• laying the groundwork for RISC-V?