So many people ask, where did I get the name "CaptnZilog". Well, my first computer was a TRS-80 Model-I (I still have it, I'll get a picture up one of these days) which ran on a 1.78Mhz Z-80 chip from Zilog (popular back in the 8-bit days, used in a lot of CP/M machines). Back in the mid-80's, when everyone was trying to compete in the CPU market, Intel had the 286/386 series, Motorola had the 68000 series, National Semiconductor had their short-lived 32032 series (I have a 6Mhz "sample" chip around somewhere with all the docs), TI had their 9900 processor... and Zilog, trying to compete in the 16/32 bit CPU world came out with the Z-8000.

To market the chip, Zilog put out a Comic book about "Captain Zilog" shrinking down to micro-size with some innocent bystanders to save the chip from the 'silicon pirates', and a poster with it. Somewhere along the line I lost the Comic book :-( , but my 'computer room' has always sported the Captain Zilog poster somewhere on the wall. When I first signed up for AOL back in the early 90's (I was on CompuServe up to that point), I needed a screenname to use.. and all the names I tried were taken (unless I wanted a bunch of meaningless numbers after it). I was wracking my brain for a name and happened to look up on the wall, and...

Well. The rest is history, as they say. AOL at that time limited you to 10 characters for the name, so I shortened it to "CaptnZilog"... and thats how I got the name.