---
title: "Interface to the Real World"
type: "article"
slug: "interface-to-the-real-world"
url: "http://localhost/article/interface-to-the-real-world/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/interface-to-the-real-world.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:11:05+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T00:47:51+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Add an 8-bit latch to the ZX80 or MicroAce, mapped to 3000H (12288). Includes schematic."
category:
  - name: "Syntax"
    slug: "syntax"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/syntax/"
post_tag:
  - name: "1981"
    slug: "year-1981"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/year-1981/"
  - name: "Hardware project"
    slug: "hardware-project"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/hardware-project/"
  - name: "MicroAce"
    slug: "microace"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/microace/"
  - name: "ZX80"
    slug: "zx80"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/zx80/"
model:
  - name: "MicroAce"
    slug: "microace"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/microace/"
  - name: "Sinclair ZX80"
    slug: "zx80"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/zx80/"
publication: "Syntax"
publication_r:
  id: 10246
  title: "Syntax"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/syntax/"
volume: "2"
issue: "1"
issues_articles:
  - id: 26693
    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v2 n1"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/syntax-syntax-zx80-v2-n1/"
pages: "7-8"
pubdate: "January 1981"
archive_link: false
volumeissue: "v2n1"
companies_articles:
  - id: 11104
    title: "MicroAce"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/microace/"
---

# Interface to the Real World

Add an 8-bit latch to the ZX80 or MicroAce, mapped to 3000H (12288). Includes schematic.