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| | Chuck Peddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Peddle had worked at Motorola from 1973 on the development of the 6800 processor but then left for MOS Technology, where he headed the design of the 650x family of processors; these were made as an answer to the Motorola 6800. | | | Electronics engineer Chuck Peddle is mostly known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor; the KIM-1 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET school/business/home computer, both based on the 6502. | | | The most famous member of the 650x series was the 6502, which was subsequently used in very many microcomputer devices (three well-known examples from the consumer market being the Apple II, the Commodore VIC-20 and the Nintendo Entertainment System aka NES). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle
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| | Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Chuck Peddle |
| | Chuck Peddle is a little-recognized computer pioneer who initiated groundbreaking efforts in early computers, works that were the embryo for computers to follow. | | | Peddle not only designed one of the first personal computers but also he co-designed the microprocessor (the 6800), founded a little-known but important company called MOS Technology, and went on to help put Commodore on the map. | | | Commodore president Jack Tramiel took notice of Peddle’s work and acquired MOS Technology so he could get Peddle. |
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http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=&DicID=16726&RefType=Encyclopedia
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| | Chuck Peddle's briefing was hastily moved up, and he began his briefing with a rundown on his hottest research project, a new color computer which he called the ColorPET. | | | Meanwhile, Chuck Peddle was still pushing for a more up-scale computer and was quietly resisting the project. | | | This was where Chuck Peddle's group at Moore Park brought their goodies to be fine-tuned, tested, and debugged, and to have software written. |
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http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/hcw-ebook.txt
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| | commodore.ca History History of Chuck Peddle, Commodore Computer Inventor |
| | Chuck Peddle got the idea of developing a personal computer. | | | Chuck Peddle had certainly also made an impression with his concept of a personal computer. | | | In 1980 Chuck Peddle and Chris Fish owned Victor corporation which made a superior 8080/8086 based machine called the Sirius 1, prior to IBM's entry into the small computer market |
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http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/chuck_peddle.htm
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| | Commodore PET 2001 computer |
| | Chuck Peddle was an engineer at MOS who worked on their 6502 CPU, as well as the KIM-1 computer. | | | There was an earlier Commodore computer, the KIM-1, but Commodore didn't design it, they inherited it when they bought MOS Technologies, who designed and produced computer chips - the KIM-1 was a way to demonstrate the power of the MOS 6502 CPU to the industrial community. | | | It worked - Chuck Peddle went on to design the PET, one of the very first user-friendly computers. |
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http://oldcomputers.net/pet2001.html
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| | The Dusty Crystal Ball |
| | Chuck Peddle conceived the original PET computer, and a good concept it was, too. | | | Chuck convinces them that the world needs a personal computer, to be called the "PET". | | | In fact, Chuck left Commodore to design a new 16-hit computer called either Victor or Sirius, depending on which continent you were on. |
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http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/archives/010616ar.htm
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| | Commodore International: Information From Answers.com |
| | Peddle packaged a single-board computer design in a metal case, along with a full-travel QWERTY keyboard, monochrome monitor, and tape recorder (for program and data storage), to produce the Commodore PET. | | | Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead-end, and that they should turn their attention to home computers. | | | From that date forward (1977), Commodore would be a computer company. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/commodore-international
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| | The Commodore 64 |
| | Chuck Peddle was lobbying for the development of Color PET and CBM computers. | | | Within MOS Technology, Chuck Peddle, the chip's designer, built a single-board computer called the KIM-1. | | | However, after acquiring MOS Technology Jack gave Peddle six months to design and build a prototype of a real personal computer. |
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http://www.pc-history.org/comm.htm
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| | 2003_09_09.html Trash-80 |
| | Peddle, lacking the resources for a courtroom battle, withdrew the 6501, reworked the instruction set, and released the MOS Technology 6502. | | | The 6502 had some interesting er...features, one being the infamous JMP indirect bug and another being an ambiguous response if an IRQ and NMI were simultaneously detected (which interrupt had higher priority -- I always assumed the NMI but the processor didn't always agree with me). | | | Interesting thing about the Z80 was that its instruction set was very similar to the Intel 8080. |
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http://aplawrence.com/Words/2003_09_09.html
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| | Commodore History |
| | Peddle convinced Jack Tramiel to look into the possibility of a desktop computer, using MosTek's advancement on the Motorola 6800, called the 6502. | | | Disappointed but anxious to get into the computer market, Tramiel set Chuck Peddle the task of developing a computer. | | | This resulted in the development of the PET (the idea being that it would serve the user, like a dog fetching the newspaper). |
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http://amiga.emugaming.com/commodore.html
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : HISTORY / detailed info |
| | A legend says that, one day, Chuck Peddle, the designer of the 6502 microprocessor, accosted him in a corridor and asked him to forget hand held calculators and think about a desktop computer. | | | The PET was the first computer sold by Jack Tramiel. | | | Tramiel said, "Build it" and Chuck built the PET computer based on the 6502 microprocessor! |
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http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=31&t=3
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| | MOS TECHNOLOGY FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | At Commodore Peddle convinced the owner, Jack_Tramiel, that calculators were a dead end, and that home computers would soon be huge. | | | A repackaged KIM with a new display driver and keyboard became the Commodore_PET computer. | | | MOS had previously designed a simple computer kit called the KIM-1, primarily to "show off" the 6502 chip. |
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http://www.witwib.com/MOS_Technology
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| | Book Reviews - Digital Retro - Digital Photography Now |
| | Laing was able to track down and interview such icons, for example, as Chuck Peddle, inventor of the 6502 microprocessor and the PET 2001 personal computer and now enjoying his retirement. | | | Apparently Peddle found it quite difficult to recount the heady days of the birth of home computing. | | | One of the sobering things that comes from talking to Laing about his work researching the book is that many of the pioneers who once featured on the front covers of august titles as Personal Computer World back in the 70s and 80s are now retired and, worryingly, forgetful. |
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http://www.dpnow.com/1299.html
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| | Larry's PET Pages |
| | Of all the microcomputers introduced in 1977 the PET stood out, first with it's futuristic 'sci-fi' computer look, it was a complete computer system in one case (computer, keyboard, monitor and tape storage) which also had a ROM based operating system and BASIC all ready to go with a flick of the power switch. | | | Commodore's first official computer was the Commodore PET, designed by the key designer of the 6502 microprocessor, Chuck Peddle. |
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| | Secret Weapons of Commodore: The Story of Commodore |
| | Legend has it that Peddle brought up the idea of making a desktop computer out of the 6502; after the failed bid for Apple, that was just what Tramiel wanted, and put Peddle on the job with Tramiel's second son Leonard to design a computer of Commodore's own. | | | Tandy spied a goldmine and after looking over the PET decided to develop their own computer instead, but Tramiel refused to be discouraged even after a lukewarm reception to the announcement of the project in 1976. | | | While Tramiel killed most of the outstanding projects immediately, he heeded Peddle's advice about the 6502 and kept it in development. |
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http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/history.html
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| | Computer History Museum - Lectures - Richard Frank |
| | As a consultant to Commodore Computer's Chuck Peddle he worked on cross assemblers and the early development of the Commodore VIC system. | | | He was contacted by Adam Osborne through mutual acquaintances at Commodore and Godbout Computers and was asked to develop a software test fixture for the early board design. | | | Richard's consulting work for the Navy's Fleet Numerical Weather Central focused on developing the Navy's PC environmental display system (NEDS) software and hardware. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/osborne_03252004/bios/Frank.shtml
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| | Motorola switches chips - Printer friendly - ZDNet UK Comment |
| | Peddle, however, has formed Sirius, and is in love with Intel compatibility and MS Dos. | | | Peddle, a genius, rapidly produces the 6502 -- a big advance on the 6800/6500 | | | So Wilson designs the ARM, with the objective of providing an upgrade path for 6502 users. |
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print?TYPE=story&AT=2116640-39020676t-21000004c
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| | Remembering the Future: Interviews from PCW |
| | Guy Swarbrick (Al Shugart) was editor of PCW from 1990 to 1992, when he moved on to Dell UK and then to Microsoft, where he is business development manager for mobile computing. | | | PCW is the best place in the world to work if you like computer hardware. | | | A 4K machine with a built-in monitor and 300-baud cassette deck, its keyboard owed more to Commodore’s calculator roots than to a Remington. |
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http://www.compulink.co.uk/~wendyg/pcwivs.htm
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| | Altair680b Emulator Project main page |
| | This isn't too much of a revelation since the principal engineer of the 6800, Chuck Peddle, was the creator of the 65xx series of processors from MOS. | | | Anyway, this project has just begun, so available information is very sparse. |
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http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/Altair680.htm
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| | The Apricot is an unusual IBM compatable using the same chipset as the VICTOR by Chuck Peddle. | | | The Original Apricot that started it all for the up and coming Scottish Computer Manufacturer. | | | Most MS-DOS machines designate A: and B: as floppy drives. |
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http://www.thepcmuseum.com/misc/ACT/apricot
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| | Jack Tramiel |
| | Peddle convinced Tramiel that the computer would take over in society and that the 6502 was the first in line for success. | | | Tramiel wanted Peddle to work on a computer to show on the next Comdex. | | | One of the engineers at MOS was Chuck Peddle, the man who had designed the ground-breaking 6502 chip. |
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http://www.eurofreehost.com/ja/Jack_Tramiel.html
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| | VHJ: Once Upon a Time: Remembering Chuck Peddle |
| | It is rumored that Chuck wanted to get into a computer business and approached two guys who were making hobbyist machines in a garage. | | | The 6502 has a large place in computer history. | | | Chuck also founded M.O.S. Technologies, the firm that made the 6502. |
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http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2001/september/010926_Nils_Remembering_Chuck_Peddle/010926_Nils_Remembering_Chuck_Peddle.htm
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| | Timeline of Microcomputers (1977-1980) |
| | (end) Chuck Peddle quits Apple Computer and returns to Commodore. | | | (summer) Apple Computer hires Chuck Peddle, designer of the 6502 microprocessor and Commodore's PET. | | | At the West Coast Computer Faire, Adam Osborne approaches Les Felsenstein with the idea of starting a computer company. |
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http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/comphist/comp1977.htm
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| | Chuck Salter |
| | But the folks who peddle computers at CDW really do it. | | | Landmark Graphics CEO Bob Peebler and his colleagues use cutting-edge technology to help executives in one of the world's most basic industries make smarter decisions. | | | Chuck writes features and profiles, often about people you don't find in traditional business publications. |
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| | Design case history: the Atari Video Computer System |
| | Peddle at Wescon and found that the 6502 matched precisely the minimum specifications that they had laid out some time before in a blue-sky design for a programmable video game. | | | Atari and other video-game companies had been making microprocessor-based arcade games for some time before the VCS was developed, but the cost of then-available processors - $100 or more each - made the idea of a home consumer product based on a micro processor impractical. | | | Peddle, who had left Motorola for MOS Technology after designing the MC6800 microprocessor, appeared at Wescon - the annual West Coast electronics show - in September 1975, offering to sell his new microprocessor by the barrel at $8 apiece. |
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/Atari_case_history.html
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| | Commodore PET 4016 |
| | The PET 4016 was the second in the series of what will become a long running series of PET computers designed by Chuck Peddle, (who also designed the 6502 microprocessor) and marketed by Commodore. | | | The 4000 series PETs came with an improved Read Only Memory: This is the permanent memory where the computers operating instructions are stored. | | | I added this PET 4016 to the museum on November 5, 1999 and I would like to thank Roger Shepherd for selling it to me. |
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http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/4016.htm
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| | DTACK GROUNDED #27 -- January 1984 |
| | Chuck Peddle, famed designer of the 6502 and the original PET was in that awkward position for a while, but no more. | | | Apple's anger shortly turned to laughter as Chuck broke off from Commodore and established Sirius Systems (later Victor Technology) and set out to become the head of the third largest computer company in the world. | | | Chuck and his design group also designed the microprocessor to be more producible. |
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http://linux.cis.monroeccc.edu/~paulrsm/dg/dg27.htm
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| | Interview, Michael Tomczyk |
| | Of the 2O-plus executives there, only a few supported the concept: Kit Spencer the general manager in the U.K., Tony Tokai, the Japanese general manager, Jack, and me. Everyone else, including Chuck Peddle who invented the first Commodore PET computer, were opposed to the idea, in favor of a larger machine they called the "Toy." | | | Thank you for inviting me to participate in your highly worthwhile efforts to document, archive, and preserve the VIC-20...a true icon in computer history. | | | My first day with the company, I attended an international meeting in London where Jack said he wanted to introduce a $300 color computer. |
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http://www.geocities.com/rmelick/15.htm
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| | MOS Technology |
| | The 6501 was pin compatible with the 6800, but not software compatible. | | | Also see: Calculator IC Information for chips and pin-outs | | | Chuck Peddle, Bill Mensch and two other designers went right to work on the 6500 series of microprocessors. |
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http://www.antiquetech.com/companies/MOS.htm
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| | Software Reference |
| | If they did it, I have yet to come across it, because even at the time of the Commodore 64 they used cumbersome serial-based disk drives which effectively contained a complete computer, making them expensive and unreliable. | | | Apple had managed to crack the synchronization problems which plaqued disk manufacturers in a very simple way - this made the Apple ][ the cheapest full-fledged computer with a disk system on the market. | | | Commodore, whose PET system was a rival to the Apple ][ (Chuck Peddle even attempted to buy the Apple ][ design for Commodore, but Apple weren't keen on Sam Tramiel despite pressure by Woz's parents for him to sell and get a real job), also attempted to develop a similar disk system. |
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http://www.dmc12.demon.co.uk/retrotech/appleretro/dos31.html
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| | MOS Technology 6502 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However this left MOS with the problem of getting new developers onto the system, so in response engineer Chuck Peddle designed the KIM-1 single-board computer. | | | Much to their surprise, the KIM-1 sold in huge numbers to hobbyists and tinkerers as well as the engineers it was intended for. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
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| | The First Microprocessor |
| | The Intel 386 was developed in 1985 and facilitated the transition into the current era of computing. | | | The Z80 was the choice of many pioneer system vendors including Osborne and Kaypro, and, in many ways, brought PCs into business. | | | The chip was designed by Charlie Melear and Chuck Peddle and was mainly utilized in small-business machines and automotive controls. |
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http://www.acm.vt.edu/~andrius/work/microproc
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |
| | Fourth, The Victor 9000 distribution was supported by a network of 50 branch offices in the U.S.A. Fifth and perhaps most important, the chief designer of Victor's machine is not a novice but Chuck Peddle, a founder of the microcomputer industry who knows how to bring maximum performance to the market at an affordable price. | | | There is an additional user-port inside (this port is a complete 6522) the Computer. | | | The Victor 9000 / Sirius S1 was conceived by Chuck Peddle who also designed the first Commodore PETs. |
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=210
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| | Monitors? We no need no stinking' Monitors! |
| | Developed by the digital god himself, Chuck Peddle, and his MOS Technologies (which soon became Commodore Semiconductor Group), this is a genuine kit computer. | | | To return to my home page, click here. |
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http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/ckim1.html
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| | DTACK GROUNDED #24 -- October 1983 |
| | Victor Technology is the outfit that makes the best-selling Victor 9000 personal computer. | | | The Wall Street Journal has quoted Apple's new prexy Scully that a board is being developed which will allow LISA to run (IBM) PC software. | | | Maybe Victor is not becoming the fourth largest computer firm swiftly enough to satisfy its board of directors? |
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http://www.amigau.com/68K/dg/dg24.htm
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| | Interview, Bill Seiler |
| | We adapted the PET IEEE-488 parallel bus to the serial bus used in the VIC-20. | | | It should have a language (BASlC) to write programs in, and a way to save and load programs (cassette tape). | | | Suddenly the VIC-20 was a big project at Commodore. |
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http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/vic/BillSeiler.html
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| | KIM-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Otherwise identical to the 6501, it nevertheless had the disadvantage of having no machine in which new users could quickly start playing with the CPU. | | | While the machine was originally intended to be used by engineers, it quickly found a large audience with hobbyists. | | | Chuck Peddle started work on an expanded version, with a full built-in QWERTY-keyboard, cassette tape drive, and monochrome monitor display. |
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| | Secret Weapons of Commodore: The Other Intellect/TOI Series and the Colour PET |
| | Jim Brain speculates in Commodore Trivia #26 that "The Other Intellect", or TOI series, may have been the Colour PET being designed by Chuck Peddle, founder of MOS Technology (later Commodore Semiconductor Group); the Colour PET, mentioned in The Home Computer Wars, mysteriously disappeared from view shortly before the VIC-20's development. | | | Also known as the Sirius 1, its unusual disk format made it difficult to work with or run software on, despite being able to use MS-DOS (an unusual internationalised "version 1.25"), UCSD P-System and CP/M-86 as operating systems. | | | Portions of its ideas may have been carried over into the short-lived VIC-40, as well as into other non-Commodore machines as well: the Victor 9000 is a very likely suspect (even more likely given the fact that Chuck Peddle was behind it). |
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http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/toi.html
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| | WF KING´s CBM-Fan-Page |
| | Chuck Peddle, a MOS-engineer, had developed a computer that based on the 6502 processor and was called Personal Electronic Transactor (PET). | | | Recognizing its chance, Commodore supported the development of the PET, so that in 1977 the first PET´s were sold on the market. | | | To avoid conflicts in ordering chips from Texas Instruments, Commodore bought the company MOS-Tech that produced microchips, especially the 6502 microprocessor. |
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http://www.wfking.de/wfk1.htm
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| | Chuck Peddle |
| | Chuck Peddle designed the 6502 microprocessor and Commodore Business Machines' PET computer. | | | It uses material from the wikipedia article Chuck Peddle. | | | Peddle article @ Euro Online Encyclopedia'>Chuck Peddle |
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http://www.eurofreehost.com/ch/Chuck_Peddle.html
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| | Amiga Auckland Before Amiga |
| | In 1979, after Tramiel insisted that memory components for the new PETs must be derived from MOS Technology, against Peddle's wishes, the two men split and Peddle joined Victor United, a subsidiary of of the giant Walter Kidde Corporation and formed Sirius Systems Technology to produce the Sirius 16-bit business machines. | | | He spotted the potential market for a personal computer and in 1976 brought Chuck Peddle into the company and the rest is, as they say, history. | | | The requirements of cheap volume manufacture however tend to militate against incorporation of the most advanced technology. |
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http://www.titan.co.nz/amigaak/AA020100.htm
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| | Commodore PET FAQ |
| | The PET line was Commodore's first computer line after purchasing MOS Technologies, the primary design of the computer (as well as its microprocessor, the 6502) was by Chuck Peddle. | | | The line was labeled in series' the first series, the 2001 series, the European 3000 series, and the modern 4000 and 8000 series, and the final single unit 9000 series which is the SuperPET. |
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| | dg computers |
| | Shortly after all this Chuck Peddle and team left and joined MOS Technology, famous for making digital clock and calculator ICs in Pennsylvania. | | | Chuck told me about another chip in design called the 6502, identical to the 6501 in software, but quite different in hardware layout, even including an internal clock generator. | | | I preferred the 6501 to the 6800 because if I had a problem CPU PCB, I could pop out the dynamic 6800 and put in a static 6501 and new boot code EPROM and quickly single step through the problem software. |
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| | peddle - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | peddle : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "peddle" is defined. | | | peddle : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] |
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| | R.I.P. COMMODORE 1954 - 1994 |
| | But his distinctive computer with a built-in monitor, tape drive, and trapezoidal case was a bargain at $795. | | | In 1977, the first three consumer-ready personal computers appeared: the Apple II, the Tandy TRS-80, and the Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor). | | | Chuck Peddle, who designed the PET, isn't as famous as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the founders of Apple. |
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| | Rising importance for Intel's CPUs |
| | By the time, Intel's microprocessors became the company's most successful products, especially in 1980, when IBM entered the PC business and decided upon the Intel chips as its computers' CPUs. | | | Together with the competing microprocessors meanwhile developed by Motorola (6809) and Zilog (Z80), as well as Chuck Peddle's 6509 at MOS Tech, the 8080 became the heart of the f irst personal computers. | | | Th e 8080 reached an enormous market response and soon became industry standard. |
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| | The Calgary Commodore Users Group |
| | But the important acquisition was MOS Technology, which became known as MosTek. | | | Chuck Peddle, responsible for building the prototype, was under huge pressure to get the machine ready and working in time for the show. | | | After working for 3 solid days, without sleep, he managed to get the prototype working well enough to display. |
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