Sandia's SA3000: a rare 8085 variant built for nuclear weapons work
Hacker News·1w·rbanffy
Sandia National Labs created a specialized version of the Intel 8085 processor for their weapons simulation systems. The SA3000 represents Cold War-era military hardware design, now documented by hobbyists preserving obscure computing history.
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