17 Sep
2025
17 Sep
'25
8:19 p.m.
Mentioning the MAI JOLT, the first 6502 SBC computer advertised in Byte
(Dec 75), very similar to the soon to follow KIM. And in my area
(Philadelphia) another very early 6502 was the DATAC 1000 produced in part
by the Philadelphia Area Computer Society members from Drexel U. It looked
similar to the Apple I and had switches, not sure exactly when the DATAC
1000 was first produced, but I believe it was sold or demoed in some form
at the PC76 convention in Atlantic City NJ or maybe even the Trenton
Computer Festival in spring of 1976.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Debatable??
Unconfirmed stories from the usual unreliable sources (Infoworld, etc.):
(find confirmation before sticking your neck out)
Steve Wozniak was going to build his own computer. That was a given.
Likely 8080, because Z80 was EXPENSIVE.
Like a good engineer, he went to WESCON.
There, he saw the 6502, and realized that it would be adequate, and save
much money. Some stories even say that he got some free samples!
(no free samples of Z80, or even 8080)
Because of that, the Apple 1 was a 6502 machine. Its success also helped
Atari and Commodore to decide that 6502 would be good, or at least
adequate.
Impact? enormous. And Intel's market share went from predicted to be
approaching monopoly, to quite healthy.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
As far as I know this is true. What impact is had
is debatable!
Murray 🙂
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM Christian Liendo via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/the-mos-6502-how-a-25-chip-sparked-a-…
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>> According to many 50 years ago on September 16, 1975, MOS Technology
>> showed the 6502 at WESCON
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