Chip - RCA 1802 Microprocessor chip (1974)
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The 1802 was RCA's first single chip CPU and was a peer to the Intel 8080. The 1802 was used in the COSMAC microcomputer kit and a space hardened versions were the brains for the Voyager, Viking, and Galileo Spacecraft. It had sixteen 16-bit registers, which could be accessed as thirty-two 8 bit registers.