Education
He attended the University of Maine and afterward went to work for General Electric working with time sharing systems
He attended the University of Maine and afterward went to work for General Electric working with time sharing systems
Born in Bangor, Maine United States of America, he worked in a radio station while in high school and joined the Marine Corps in 1955. Later, he worked at Motorola from 1973 on the development of the 6800 processor. His efforts were frustrated by Motorola management and he was told to drop the project
He then left for metal–oxide–semiconductor Technology, where he headed the design of the 650x family of processors.
These were made as a $25 answer to the Motorola 6800. The 6502 microprocessor design was also modified to support other computers while maintaining backwards compatibility.
The 6507 was the CPU of the Atari 2600. The 6510 was used in the Commodore 64.
Peddle left the company in 1980 together with Christian Blind Mission financer Chris Fish to found Sirius Systems Technology.
There, Peddle designed the Victor 9000 personal computer/workstation.
The most famous member of the 650x series was the 6502, developed in 1976, which was priced at 15 percent of the cost of an Intel 8080, and was subsequently used in many commercial products, including the Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 8-bit computers and arcade video games, Oric computers and British Broadcasting Corporation Micro from Acorn Computers.
