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Part 2 of The Story of the Motorola 6800
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Part 1 of the story of Motorola's 8-bit microprocessor design
With a case popularly believed to have been designed by Ferdinand Porsche but which was actually designed by Commodore's regular industrial designer Ira Velinsky, an on-board 6509 CPU and an option of a second processor - either a Zilog Z-80 for C/PM, or an Intel 8088 for MS-DOS (this was included a...
One ubiquitous microprocessor of the late 1970s and 1980s was the MOS Technology MCS 6502. I included a section on the development of the 6502 in Part 2 of Supply Chain Games, and have posted it as an excerpt here, as I believe it is...
When the personal computer went from being a "bicycle for the mind" to a surveilled shopping mall.