Tell me about it! I live near West Chester, PA (former HQ
of Jack's Commodore Inc). Although it's been many years
since Jack left the area, you'll still occasionally see one of
the bumper stickers made popular by his ex-employees:
"Will Rogers never met Jack Tramiel."
True enough, but he had nothing to do with developing the
6502. Jack bought the company (MOS Technology) after
they'd developed the world's first sub-$20 microprocessor,
and promptly fired the entire R&D department. IIRC, he
was only interested in owning their wafer fab.
BTW, the 6502 was a shameless stripped-down rip-off of
Motorola's 6800 architecture -- but it was CHEAP.
...the "good old days" ...weren't,
LK
