What is Chuck Peddle?
[[File:Chuck Peddle (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Charles Ingerham “Chuck” Peddle'''<ref>{{cite web |author-last=Peddle |author-first=Charles Ingerham |display-authors=et al |title=Integrated circuit microprocessor with parallel binary adder having on-the-fly correction to provide decimal results |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US3991307A/ |id=US 3991307 |date=1976}}</ref> (November 25, 1937 &ndash; December 15, 2019) was an American [[electrical engineer]]. He was born in [[Bangor, Maine]]. He was best known as the main designer of the [[MOS Technology]] [[MOS Technology 6502|6502]] microprocessor, as well as the [[KIM-1]] SBC ([[single-board computer]]) and the [[Commodore PET]] PC ([[personal computer]]).<ref name=BYTE>{{cite web |url=http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/magazines/misc/chuck_peddle-byte-november_1982_sm.pdf |title=Chuck Peddle BYTE Interview |publisher=[[BYTE Magazine]]}}</ref> Peddle died at the age of 82 on December 15, 2019 at his [[Santa Cruz, California]] home of [[pancreatic cancer]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.team6502.org|title=In Memoriam Chuck Peddle}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-legendary-chuck-peddle-inventor-of-the-personal-computer/ The Legendary Chuck Peddle, Inventor of The Personal Computer] * [http://www.theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-charismatic-chipmaking-coryphaeus/ Chuck Peddle tells his story on The Amp Hour Podcast] {{DEFAULTSORT:Peddle, Chuck}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in California]] [[Category:Engineers from Maine]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:Scientists from Maine]] [[Category:People from Bangor, Maine]] {{US-bio-stub}}