Reply to post: Re: Not sure what they used...

Voyager 1 passes another milestone: It's now 138AU from home

Mark Dempster

Re: Not sure what they used...

>The Z80 wouldn't have been released in time for this mission and certainly wasn't rad-hard.<

Interestingly there WAS a radiation-hardened version of the Z80 available at one time; I remember a magazine article claiming that a few had accidentally found their way into ZX81s!

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