[TenTec] Dragonball CPU for Ten-Tec Orion

[Howard Smith]

The Orion / Orion II have a flash memory device that stores the program 
that runs the radio.

The case is much different for a small microcontroller, like the one 
doing the display for the Corsairs.  It has its program memory built 
in.  Some devices give you the ability to program that memory; other 
devices have that memory programmed as part of the the mask for the part.

The reliability of processors and flash memory devices is very good, so 
the likelihood of a failure is very small.  It usually takes something 
like a lightning strike to destroy a processor or flash device.  And it 
usually takes out many things, which is why a lightning strike usually 
means that the radio is probably not repairable.

73..
Howard, WA9AXQ