For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

I miss my friend Dave DiOrio. He was a chip designer in the 1980’s, which made him one of the true wizards back then. We met my first day when I started at Commodore Business Machines, though my ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became ...

Chip hall of fame: MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor When one particular chubby-faced geek stuck one particular chip into one particular computer circuit board and booted it up, the universe skipped ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many famous 8-bit machines from the likes of ...

PHILADELPHIA -- One of the earliest computers that the late Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak manufactured at Apple Computer Co. used a microprocessor manufactured at a former Lower Providence company: MOS ...

This January, a video game chip started a scientific reckoning. It all began when some "microchip archaeologists" photographed the chip---the MOS 6502 microprocessor that lived inside Atari---and ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

Though he never became a household name, Chuck Peddle was among the peers of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the 1970s who transformed personal computers from curiosities for geeky hobbyists into ...