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Electronics engineer Chuck Peddle is mostly known as the main designer of the MOS Technology
MOS Technology

MOS Technology, Inc., also known as CSG , was a integrated circuit design and Semiconductor device fabrication company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
 6502
MOS Technology 6502

The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured central processing unit on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of competing designs from larger companies such...
 microprocessor; the KIM-1
KIM-1

The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small MOS Technology 6502-based microcomputer kit developed and produced by MOS Technology and launched in 1975....
 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET
Commodore PET

The PET was a home computer-/personal computer produced by Commodore International starting in 1977. Although it was not a top seller outside the Canadian, US, and UK educational markets, it was Commodore's first full-featured computer and would form the basis for their future success....
 personal computer, both based on the 6502.

Peddle was born in 1937 in Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine

Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine....
. He worked in a radio station while in high school and joined the Marine Corps in 1955. He attended the University of Maine
University of Maine

The University of Maine, established in 1865, is the largest campus, in terms of full-time equivalent enrollments, of the seven campuses in the University of Maine System....
 and afterward went to work for General Electric working with time sharing systems. Later, he worked at Motorola
Motorola

Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
 from 1973 on the development of the 6800
Motorola 6800

The 6800 is an 8-bit microprocessor produced by Motorola and released shortly after the Intel 8080 in late 1974. It had 78 instructions, including the famous, undocumented Halt and Catch Fire bus test instruction....
 processor.

Peddle recognized a market for an ultra low price microprocessor and began to champion such a design to complement the £150 Motorola 6800.






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Electronics engineer Chuck Peddle is mostly known as the main designer of the MOS Technology
MOS Technology

MOS Technology, Inc., also known as CSG , was a integrated circuit design and Semiconductor device fabrication company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
 6502
MOS Technology 6502

The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured central processing unit on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of competing designs from larger companies such...
 microprocessor; the KIM-1
KIM-1

The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small MOS Technology 6502-based microcomputer kit developed and produced by MOS Technology and launched in 1975....
 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET
Commodore PET

The PET was a home computer-/personal computer produced by Commodore International starting in 1977. Although it was not a top seller outside the Canadian, US, and UK educational markets, it was Commodore's first full-featured computer and would form the basis for their future success....
 personal computer, both based on the 6502.

Peddle was born in 1937 in Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine

Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine....
. He worked in a radio station while in high school and joined the Marine Corps in 1955. He attended the University of Maine
University of Maine

The University of Maine, established in 1865, is the largest campus, in terms of full-time equivalent enrollments, of the seven campuses in the University of Maine System....
 and afterward went to work for General Electric working with time sharing systems. Later, he worked at Motorola
Motorola

Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
 from 1973 on the development of the 6800
Motorola 6800

The 6800 is an 8-bit microprocessor produced by Motorola and released shortly after the Intel 8080 in late 1974. It had 78 instructions, including the famous, undocumented Halt and Catch Fire bus test instruction....
 processor.

Peddle recognized a market for an ultra low price microprocessor and began to champion such a design to complement the £150 Motorola 6800. His efforts were frustrated by Motorola management and he was told to drop the project. He then left for MOS Technology
MOS Technology

MOS Technology, Inc., also known as CSG , was a integrated circuit design and Semiconductor device fabrication company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
, where he headed the design of the 650x family of processors; these were made as a £60 answer to the Motorola 6800
Motorola 6800

The 6800 is an 8-bit microprocessor produced by Motorola and released shortly after the Intel 8080 in late 1974. It had 78 instructions, including the famous, undocumented Halt and Catch Fire bus test instruction....
. The most famous member of the 650x series was the 6502, which was subsequently used in many microcomputer devices (some well-known examples from the consumer market being the Apple II, the Commodore VIC-20
Commodore VIC-20

The VIC-20 is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore International. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the Commodore PET....
, the Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Singapore, it was released as the ....
 or NES, the Atari 8-bit computers and the BBC Micro
BBC Micro

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation....
 from Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers

Acorn Computers was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the United Kingdom....
).

The 6502 microprocessor design was also modified to support other computers while maintaining backwards compatibility. Such examples are the 6510 used in the Commodore 64
Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of United States dollar595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes of Random-access memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of tha...
.

Peddle left the company in 1980 together with CBM financer Chris Fish to found Sirius Systems Technology
Sirius Systems Technology

Sirius Systems Technology was a personal computer manufacturer in Scotts Valley, California, California. It was founded by Chuck Peddle and Chris Fish, formerly of MOS Technology....
. There, Peddle designed the Victor 9000 personal computer/workstation.

External links

  • from the Commodore web site.