Chuck Peddle

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Chuck Peddle (2013)

Charles Ingerham "Chuck" Peddle (* 25. November 1937 in Bangor , Maine ; † 15. December 2019 in Santa Cruz , California ) was an American electronics - engineer , known for his development of the microprocessor MOS 6502 in the 1970s and 1980s Years ago. Based on this processor were home computers like the Commodore PET 2001 and the Commodore 64 developed.

history

Peddle was the son of British-Canadian immigrants. His parents were Thomas and Maxine (Denno) Peddle. His father was a salesman and his mother a commercial artist.

During his time in the United States Marine Corps (from 1955) he was trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Maine . He completed his studies in 1960. He then went to General Electric , where he developed a time management concept for mainframes in the computer department. This was used to regulate the access of various customers to the system's computing time. From 1973 Peddle worked for Motorola on the development of the Motorola 6800 processor. Because of a disagreement with management over the high prices of Motorola processors, Peddle moved to MOS Technology , where he led the development department for the 650x processor family developed in response to the Motorola 6800 processors. The best-known processor in this group was the 6502 , which was installed in many home computers at the end of the 70s and 80s. When MOS was bought by Commodore (CBM), Peddle developed various computers for Commodore, including the PET 2001 and the VC 20 . Three of the more well-known computers that used the 6502 (or derivatives thereof) were the Apple II , the Commodore 64 and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

In 1980 Peddle left the company Commodore and together with Chris Fish founded the company Sirius Systems Technology , which first successfully brought the Sirius I computer onto the market. It was only through the IBM PC that the Sirius I got overwhelming competition, which was also supported by the fact that the operating systems of the two computers were not compatible . This led to the failure of Sirius and in 1983 to the end of Sirius Systems Technology. From 1985 Peddle worked for the Tandon Corporation .

In the following years, Chuck Peddle worked for the international Indian electronics manufacturer Celetron, which emerged in 2002 from various former Tandon companies. The CEO is Sirjang Lal Tandon, the founder of Tandon Corporation.

According to his partner Kathleen Shaeffer Peddle died at his home in Santa Cruz (California) on pancreatic cancer . He left three sons and three daughters from two failed marriages.

literature

  • Brian Bagnall: On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. Variant Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9738649-0-7 (Describes the development of Commodore computers and the role Peddle played in them.)
  • Brian Bagnall: People's computer: the story of Pet and VC-20, C64 and Amiga: rise and fall of the computer pioneer Commodore . Ed .: Winnie Forster, Boris Kretzinger. Gameplan, Utting am Ammersee 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-023848-2 (American English: On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore . Translated by Winnie Forster, Boris Kretzinger).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cade Metz: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $ 25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age. In: nytimes.com. December 24, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Markus Will: On the death of Chuck Peddle, father of the MOS 6502 processor. In: heise.de. December 23, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Emily Burnham: Chuck Peddle, UMaine grad whose invention paved the way for personal computing, dies at 82. In: bangordailynews.com. December 23, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Peddle, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peddle, Charles Ingerham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electronics engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangor , Maine
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 2019
Place of death Santa Cruz , California