Sandia's SA3000: A Cold War–era 8085 clone surfaces from the archives
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A rare CPU variant designed by Sandia National Labs during the 1980s has been documented and analyzed by the retrocomputing community. The SA3000 was a domestic alternative to Intel's 8085, built for systems where foreign chips were restricted—a reminder that open-source hardware debates have Cold War precedent.
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