I voted for the 6502 because it was the first microprocessor I ever owned. I was a student back in the mid seventies, but couldn't afford any of the processors that were then on offer (the various Intel and Motorola parts). Then MOS Technology launched the 6502 at a $25 price - they had full page adverts in the various American design magazines. I optimistically sent them an international money order in the hope they would send me one - there was nowhere in Britain I could buy one from - and, a couple of months later, when I had given up on hearing anything, a package arrived with the Hardware Manual and the Programming Manual in it. The paperwork just listed the manuals and at first I was a bit disappointed, but when I came to dispose of the packing I discovered the processor tucked in one of the sides - they'd obviously done it so I wouldn't have to pay the import tax, which was nice of them. It was a lovely white one (ceramic DIL package with a gold coloured top over the chip). [Possibly it was an engineering sample that someone had fished out of a drawer.] I built several computers with that chip - the first having a 128 x 8 RAM which was loaded from switches, with LEDs to show what the address and data buses were doing.
I voted for the 6502 because it was the first microprocessor I ever owned. I was a student back in the mid seventies, but couldn't afford any of the processors that were then on offer (the various Intel and Motorola parts). Then MOS Technology launched the 6502 at a $25 price - they had full page adverts in the various American design magazines. I optimistically sent them an international money order in the hope they would send me one - there was nowhere in Britain I could buy one from - and, a couple of months later, when I had given up on hearing anything, a package arrived with the Hardware Manual and the Programming Manual in it. The paperwork just listed the manuals and at first I was a bit disappointed, but when I came to dispose of the packing I discovered the processor tucked in one of the sides - they'd obviously done it so I wouldn't have to pay the import tax, which was nice of them. It was a lovely white one (ceramic DIL package with a gold coloured top over the chip). [Possibly it was an engineering sample that someone had fished out of a drawer.] I built several computers with that chip - the first having a 128 x 8 RAM which was loaded from switches, with LEDs to show what the address and data buses were doing.
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