Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz
From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Summary: Other uses for an 1802
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
Message-ID: <1399@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 23:03:46 GMT
References: <5946@venera.isi.edu> <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1876@looking.UUCP> <628@splut.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <628@splut.UUCP>, jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
| In article <1193@ficc.UUCP> karl@ficc.UUCP (karl lehenbauer#) writes:
| >The 1802 achieved a lot of its success by being one of the earliest, if not
| >the earliest, CMOS processor.  It's low power consumption made it idea for
| >solar powered applications like satellites and offshore platforms.
| 
| Actually, its popularity in the satellite world (OSCARs 7, 8, and 10
| spring immediately to mind - I don't know about commercial satellites)
| springs more from its inherent radiation-hardness than its low power
| consumption. As I understand it, RCA didn't set out to design a
| radiation-hard part; they fell into it. Still, it does have its uses...

Like the mention in the newsletter page of Electronics several years ago
that the 1802 was used as the brains for a nuclear artillery shell.

Mark Zenier	uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz