Chuck Peddle

Chuck Peddle ( born 1937 in Bangor, Maine) is an American electronics engineer who has become known for his development of the MOS 6502 microprocessor in the 1970s and 1980s. On the basis of this processor home computers like the Commodore PET 2001 and the Commodore C -64 have been developed.

History

Peddle worked since 1973 for Motorola on the development of the Motorola 6800 processor. Due to disagreements with management because of the high price of Motorola processors, Peddle moved to MOS Technology, where he led the development department for the 650x family of processors, which were developed in response to the Motorola 6800 processors. The best-known processor in this group was the 6502, which was built in the late 70 's and 80's in many home computers. Three of the most famous computer that had used the 6502 ( or derivatives thereof) of the Apple II, the C -64 and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

As MOS later was bought by Commodore (CBM), developed various Peddle for Commodore computers, including the PET 2001 and the VC20. After leaving Peddle 1980, the company and, together with Chris Fish, the company Sirius Systems Technology, which first brought the computer successfully Sirius I on the market. Only through the IBM PC got the Sirius I is an overwhelming competition, which was also supported by the fact that the operating systems of both computers were not compatible. This led to the failure of the Sirius and 1983 to the end of Sirius Systems Technology. Then Peddle worked for the hostel Tandon System ( JTS ), a company of Jack Tramiel.

Today, Chuck Peddle works at an international Indian electronics manufacturer named Celetron that arose in 2002 from various former Tandon companies.