Re: A contest...with a prize!

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At 08:55 PM 6/3/98 +0200, you wrote:
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>Wow, where can you get those things?
>What does that RCA thing do ?
>
>Ralf
>
The 1802/1805 chip is the heart of the Voyager, Viking and Galileo
spacecraft. Why? Because it's built with silicon on sapphire,
so it's fairly immune to radiation damage.
Harris Semiconductor makes it now (used to be RCA)
You don't have to buy the chip: here is a life-size *simulated*
computer, free of charge: (a beautiful job with graphics, too)

Regards,

Irv

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