Eight processor MOS Technology 6502 was born in 1975, the year. Its creators Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch made sure that the development could compete with similar devices from other famous companies: at low cost microprocessor from MOS Technology performance is not inferior to the model group Motorola and Intel.
Line of processors 6502 and Zilog Z80 played a crucial role in the wide spread of home computers in the late 1970s. People at first could not believe that it is possible to buy a computer 5-6 times cheaper products Motorola and Intel: Chuck Peddle developed SBCs KIM-1 bought up not too eager, waiting to catch. Only when the Giants went on microelectronics more than twofold decrease in prices to consumers realized that cheap computers its real and 6502 sales skyrocketed.
Powerful and inexpensive processor used in the home desktop computers Apple and Atari, and is widely used in game consoles, including one of the most popular in the world Nintendo Entertainment System.
The revolutionary development of MOS Technology has left its mark in culture: the chip MOS 6502 served as the basis for the development of "Terminator" in the eponymous 1984 film of the year with Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is an eight-bit processor and became part of another robot Bender of the popular cartoon series "Futurama". As explained by the head writer of the series, David Cohen, at school it with your friends had to write a program compiler for the Apple II Plus, on which stood the 6502 chip, and it was then that the idea of a robot with an eight-processor in the head.
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