6502 chip

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Funny, way I heard it was that the chips were developed for the space program 
so what was Armstrong's 'puter processor?      earliest one I ever heard of was
6500 series....GENE

Mike Dillon wrote:
> 
> Armstrong, would have loved to have that much processing power,
> when his on board altitude computer was unable to handle the
> landing and he had to take over manualy. The 6502 was mid late
> 70's processor used in the first Apple and the Apple 2 and 3.
> The moon landing was in 69 pre dating even the Intel 4004 that
> came out in the 71 ish time. Neat little processor that with
> a little practice I use to be able to write op codes directly
> without using an assempler Relitive jumps were a little pain full
> as the offset was limited to 256 bytes.
> 
> Mike D.
> 
> > From diy_efi-owner at esl.eng.ohio-state.edu Thu Oct  1 09:46 CDT 1998
> >
> > I think it was what Armstrong used to land on the moon,  the reason it was
> > developed....and yes Appple, and Commodore, and others used it ....mostly as a
> > toy then....GENE
> >
> > ECMnut at aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > In a message dated 10/1/98 6:05:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, wrm at ccii.co.za
> > > writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > >  >Hey, has any one got a disassembler for the 6502 ???
> > > >  Send me an instruction sheet and I'll add it to the HC11 disasm :-)
> > > >  But I'm sure there are decent 6502 disasms out there.
> > >
> > > Hey, why does that chip sound so familiar?  Was it used in
> > > early Apple][ computers?
> > >
> > > Mike V
> > > processor challenged
> >
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