Debatable??
Unconfirmed stories from the usual unreliable sources (Infoworld, etc.):
(find confirmation before sticking your neck out)
Steve Wozniak was going to build his own computer. That was a given.
Likely 8080, because Z80 was EXPENSIVE.
Like a good engineer, he went to WESCON.
There, he saw the 6502, and realized that it would be adequate, and save
much money. Some stories even say that he got some free samples!
(no free samples of Z80, or even 8080)
Because of that, the Apple 1 was a 6502 machine. Its success also helped
Atari and Commodore to decide that 6502 would be good, or at least
adequate.
Impact? enormous. And Intel's market share went from predicted to be
approaching monopoly, to quite healthy.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
As far as I know this is true. What impact is had is debatable!
Murray 🙂
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM Christian Liendo via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/the-mos-6502-how-a-25-chip-sparked-a-computer-revolution/
According to many 50 years ago on September 16, 1975, MOS Technology
showed the 6502 at WESCON
