Chuck Peddle

Biography Peddle was born in Bangor, Maine, United States on November 25, 1937. He worked in a radio station while in high school. The Atari 2600 uses the closely related 6507 CPU, the Commodore 64 uses the also closely related derivative 6510, and the Nintendo Entertainment System uses a custom ASIC which includes an altered 6502 core (with the decimal mode deleted).

In 1980, Peddle left MOS Technology, together with Commodore Business Machines (CBM) financer Chris Fish, to found Sirius Systems Technology. There, Peddle designed the Sirius 1 / Victor 9000 8088-based personal computer.