Oral History of Chuck Peddle
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Interviewed by Doug Fairbairn and Stephen Diamond on 2014-06-12 in Mountain View, CA X7180.2014
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Chuck Peddle is not one of the better known names in the world of microprocessors and personal computers, but he has had as much influence on the evolution of those industries as anyone.
He began his career at General Electric, where he had a wide range of engineering experiences in defense and commercial systems. He became convinced that the future was distributed intelligence rather than centralized computing. He started a company, Intelligent Terminal Systems, to design a point of sale system. He found himself ahead of the technology curve and was not able to get the company funded. He then took a job building a typesetting system based on the PDP-11. This experience was a real eye-opener for him, as the PDP-11 architecture would significantly influence his future work.
Chuck joined the Motorola team working on the 6800 microprocessor in 1971. His major contribution was the development of the Programmable Interface Adapter (PIA), which provided enhanced I/O capability to the microprocessor.
After disagreements with Motorola, Peddle joined with former colleagues at MOS Technology to create what became the most popular microprocessor of the personal computer age: the 6502. It was designed into Apple, Atari, Commordore, and so many other personal computers.
He later went to work for Commodore, where he designed the wildly popular Commodore PET computer and several personal computers after that, working deals with Victor, Microsoft, Shugart, Tandon and many others. Peddle’s impact on the personal computer industry through the 1970’s and ‘80’s is truly remarkable.
Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - www.computerhis...
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Catalog Number: 102739938
Lot Number: X7180.2014
These oral histories are priceless. What better way to record history than from the people that helped create it.
THIS IS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER Love you ❤
God bless him. He meant so much to me and I never met him. The work he did launched my career.
@@charles-y2z6c I met him only few times as he lived in California and I was in Arizona but it was amazing meeting him and he was a good person it amazes me how much he’s done for technology thanks for the love
Rest easy 🕊️Chuck peddle❤️
R.I.P....Thanks for giving us affordable home computers
This guy has made some insane contributions to this planet.
A great interview. It's cool that the interviewer had been there for part of Chuck's history to.
If you ever played Atari 2600, NES, Apple I/II, or owned a Commodore 64, thank Chuck Peddle. Chuck had an incredible vision of where computers were going and was instrumental in starting the home computer revolution at MOS Technology / Commodore. The products created with the 6502 entertained, educated, and inspired an entire generation to become literate with the first wave of home computers.
Good speech, only imprecision is the past tense. I am digging deeper in to the C64 and the 6502 (6510) for about a year now and learned more about computing in general than ever before with other machines.
He launched my career as a software pirate when I was 12 😂
absolute legend and greatest man on the planet , makes jobs look like a beginner, he is entitled a few swear words for what he has done for mankind. I hope he lives forever and gets all the credit he really does deserves.
I agree this is my father
@@debbiepeddle1636 you are blessed :) i would just love to meet the man
@@debbiepeddle1636 for real?!
4 hours long. I'm looking forward to listening to every second of this video. The pile of paperwork I have on my desk @ work I'm sure won't go anywhere. It'll still be there tomorrow morning🙂
This is my father. These days were exciting. I remember saying, why are you doing this. My sister was the one that want to go to Florida. Very proud of f him.
@@debbiepeddle1636 Thanks for sharing 🙂.
That was outstanding! Certainly one of the best talks from the CHM.
A legend of the industry.
I talked to him, very nice guy and he has an incredible history. He envisioned many things back in early 1980ies that came to life much later in time, e.g. large computer networks and crazy stuff like that. Had many of his products or where he worked on, e.g. 6502, KIM, PET, Sirius Victor etc.
At 1:34:30 he must have been talking about the MCS-48 series of micro-controllers
May he rest in piece, he's a huge inspiration for me in both microprocessors and story.
Chuck in the beginning was *so* right. He died not much more than five years later.
Thanks sir Chuck.
God bless.
I love how Chuck takes control of the energy in the room and conversation. Watching him in the same space with Jack Tramiel must have left spectators in awe.
Yeah, it drove me nuts when the interviewer interrupted him
thats what I hoped he would tell us more about. But intviewer was more intrested in Apple and Apple 2.
Fond memories of ASIC layout with rubylith and HILO 3 in 1980 and design on greenbar.
1:52:11 "The 6502 was designed as the universal solver. It's just enough, it's simple enough, it's cheap enough that you can use it for anything." I really wish Sophie Wilson would watch this.
why?
@@PauloConstantino167 because she often makes it seem like the 6502 was somehow deficient when speaking about how ARM got started. In a number of her talks she compares the new design (ARM1) to something hugely successful (6502), designed more than 10 years earlier with a different purpose and completely different goal.
Thank G-d you have this interview!
The Greeks thought story telling would be over when writing was invented. We have come around boys!
Wow, he is unbelievably sharp even at a later age in this interview.
7:45 he compares working in construction vs working on computers, having done both I can verify his view.
1:03:00 drop box deposits.
1:56:25 pretty sure he means Jay Miner here and the Amiga chipset.
3:25:00 hes talking about the 386sx cpu that came with the math coprocessor disabled and IBM was pushing OS/2 at the time.
Legend!
Thank you , very educational :) QC
In the opening section he refers to a "94" on several occasions. I assume that's a 7090/94, but can anyone suggest an possible alternative?
RIP Mr Peddle
Still have paper tape copy of msbasic
amazing interview, wish Chuck would have told more about what happend at commodore when he was there. And the direction he wanted to take after Pet.
That's all in the book Commodore - A company on the edge. Also at some point in the documentary The 8 bit generation
Big fan of Chucks group coding
6502 completed instruction in one clock cycle. All Intel took many more.
So where is part 3 ?
If the posting date of this video is correct, he died 4 months after doing this interview. :(
more like 5 years?
2:27:33 PET computer lol. I had wondered where the name came from!
Peddle ego trip.
Did happen to use polyethylene terephthalate for its casing? asking for a friend...
This guy was a genius because, although the outcomes were complex, his approach was based on keeping things simple. I found the part about DRAM and SSD to be facinating. The only thing I think he was wrong on is thinking Bill Gates cares about underperforming modern PCs - Bill Gates has proved himself time and time against to be concerned about making money first and foremost.
The opossite of fake it till you make it
Intel 432
FYI the test computer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
Was Peter Jennings the chess coder who was also involved with VisiCalc that Chuck was trying to think of? I'll edit this comment with the timestamp when I watch it all again.
01:49:00
RIP
Around the 29 minute mark, Mr. Peddle mentions BASIC on a GE computer. For an intersection of history, see 'Birth of BASIC' (ua-cam.com/video/WYPNjSoDrqw/v-deo.html) where Dartmouth gets a GE computer for timesharing and BASIC
Right?
fell asleep and woke up 2.5 hrs into this vid
This interview makes the best case why intellectual property is inherently eveil: not only can you sue someone for somehing that someone did to stuff that you don't own, you can furthermore force that someone that you're sueing to sue on his/her costs all others who are trying that as well! That's literally the textbook definition of perpetual injustice! twitter.com/qco
2:28:19 Chuck's not far off. Pet is the French word for fart.
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Poor chuck he seems a little overwhelmed, the interviewer seems to be pressuring him!
The interviewer is a bit of a jerk interrupting chuck and hurrying him!
I believe these are volunteers and if you watch the whole thing again you'll find that both interviewers had professional relationships with different Peddle ventures. Also if you see a few Peddle interviews, you'll notice it is very difficult to keep him on one topic. A hyperactive mind I think, which we all benefit from even today. :)
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