Editing Chuck Peddle (section)

==Biography==
Peddle was born in [[Bangor, Maine]], [[United States]] on November 25, 1937. He worked in a [[radio station]] while in high school.<ref name=Byte/>

In 1955, Peddle joined the [[United States Marine Corps]]. He attended the [[University of Maine]] where he earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] (B.Sc.) degree in [[engineering physics]]. Afterward, he went to work for [[General Electric]] working with [[time-sharing]] systems.<ref name=Byte/>

In 1973, Peddle worked at [[Motorola]] on developing the [[Motorola 6800|6800]] processor.<ref name=Byte/>

Peddle recognized a market for a very low price microprocessor and began to champion such a design to complement the $300 Motorola 6800. His efforts were frustrated by Motorola management and he was told to drop the project. He then left for [[MOS Technology]], where he headed the design of the [[MOS Technology 65xx|650x family of processors]]; these were made as a $25 answer to the [[Motorola 6800]]. The most famous member of the 650x series was the 6502, developed in 1975, which was priced at 15% of the cost of an [[Intel 8080]], and was subsequently used in many commercial products, including the [[Apple II]], [[Commodore PET|PET]], [[VIC-20]], [[Atari 8-bit computers]], [[arcade video game]]s, [[Oric computers]], and the [[BBC Micro]].<ref name=Byte/><ref name=History>{{Cite web |url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1982/chuck-peddle/ |title=Chuck Peddle |website=The Centre for Computing History}}</ref>  The [[Atari 2600]] uses the closely related [[MOS Technology 6507|6507]] CPU, the [[Commodore 64]] uses the also closely related derivative [[MOS Technology 6510|6510]], and the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] uses a [[Ricoh 2A03|custom ASIC]] which includes an altered 6502 core (with the decimal mode deleted).

In 1980, Peddle left MOS Technology, together with [[Commodore Business Machines]] (CBM) financer Chris Fish, to found [[Sirius Systems Technology]]. There, Peddle designed the [[Victor 9000]] personal computer.<ref name=History/>