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RIP Chuck Peddle

From Tom Lake@3:770/3 to All on Fri Dec 20 20:54:48 2019

Chuck Peddle the designer of the 6502 microprocessor and Commodore PET passed away on Dec. 15. Another great man gone. You'll be missed, Chuck!

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From rbernardo@iglou.com@3:770/3 to All on Fri Dec 20 23:00:52 2019

To see memorials to him, go to

https://www.team6502.org

and

https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuck-peddle

Sincerely,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

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From Ian McCall@3:770/3 to rbernardo@iglou.com on Sat Dec 21 12:17:36 2019

<rbernardo@iglou.com> wrote:

To see memorials to him, go to

https://www.team6502.org

and

https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuck-peddle

Very sorry to hear this. This person has had a massive influence on my life
and I didn’t even know him personally. The creation of the 6502 directly
lead to the home computing boom, and the early micro scene was essentially conjured from thin air between 6502 and Zilog’s Z80.

I loves it. Went into computing as a career and here I am all these years later. Thanks Chuck.

Ian

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From Tristan Miller@3:770/3 to Tom Lake on Tue Dec 24 09:52:05 2019

Greetings.

On 21/12/2019 05.54, Tom Lake wrote:

Chuck Peddle the designer of the 6502 microprocessor and Commodore
PET passed away on Dec. 15. Another great man gone. You'll be missed,
Chuck!

Very sorry to hear about this. Apart from his technical
accomplishments, I got the impression that he was a nice guy. He was
always happy to speak at length about his role in the microcomputer
industry for historians and tech writers.

Regards,
Tristan

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From rbernardo@iglou.com@3:770/3 to All on Fri Dec 27 22:46:27 2019

More articles on the passing of Chuck are found at

https://hackaday.com/2019/12/25/honoring-chuck-peddle-father-of-the-6502-and-the-chips-that-went-with-it/

and

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/technology/chuck-peddle-dead.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191226?campaign_id=2&instance_id=14779&segment_id=19878&user_id=52e9bd8191fe2014c39ec1549b47f2c1&regi_id=311626211226

and on the front page of

https://www.commodore.ca/

Sincerely,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

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From rbernardo@iglou.com@3:770/3 to All on Wed Jan 1 22:44:52 2020

And another article on the passing of Chuck...

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/23/news/bangor/chuck-peddle-umaine-grad-whose-invention-paved-the-way-for-personal-computing-dies-at-82/

plus a Maine Alumni Association article written when he was alive...

https://www.umainealumni.com/magazine/he-changed-the-world/

His obituary has appeared at Legacy.com. See

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=charles-peddle-chuck&pid=194838073&fhid=8818

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

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