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Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not…
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History & Retro ComputingHardware & Electronics2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jun 29, 2026 | Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU by rbanffy | 186 | 51 |
