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From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Tue Apr 29 03:59:34 1997

On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Scott Walde wrote:
>
> > > *** Preliminary Announcement ***
> > >
> > > First Annual Classic Computer Collector Conference
> >
> > Sounds like fun.
> >
> > > Classic Computer Pioneer - every year an
> > > Nominees: Gary Kildall, creator of
> > > CP/M; Steve Wozniak; ???
> >
> > How about Chuck Peddle?
>
> Who? (please explain!)

Chuck Peddle was one of the guys who left Motorola and founded MOS
Technology. I believe he's generally credited with the creation of the
6502 processor (along with Bill Mensch? Or was it Mensch that did most of
the work?). Peddle has also been called "Father of the PET" because he
designed the PET for Commodore. After Commodore, he left
Commodore, he founded another company where he made 8086-based machines
that ran MS-DOS but weren't, I believe, IBM-PC compatible (the Victor
9000?).

I'll second his nomination, and with great trepidation add Jay Miner to
the list. :)

> Sam
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
>

Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
Received on Tue Apr 29 1997 - 03:59:34 BST