> 4. By using very large value resistors (as I recommended), the current draw, > even if the pin is incorrectly set, will be negligible. A 100M resistor at 5 > volts is 50nA IF set incorrectly. I have seen power consumption increase by > 50mA when the pull-ups were removed from an unused port on an old Z80/PIO This is a useless value for a pullup. Electric field effects will dominate, and your "pulled up" input will be bouncing all over the place. Try something sane like 1-10k, which will survive even near field E and H field events and usually remain in whatever state you pulled it to. Pullups on cmos inputs don't draw appreciable current. NMOS Z80s are not CMOS, and they do draw current. The safest, least cost method to secure unused pins is as outputs, low or high. Making them inputs adds ways for the code to have problems. Shorting an output pin to the rails is not going to kill a chip. They will simply output their max current into the load, and get slightly warm. That being said, I would still put a resistor to ground on the schematic, and not populate it, so that later, you can add things to those pins, using the resistor pads.