Bill Mensch
For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.”
The 6502 chip was created by MOS Technology and introduced to the world in 1975. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, founders of Apple, used the 6502 to build the first Apple computer. The Commodore computer and the first Atari computers were also built using that chip.
“So we owe all we have in personal computing in some indirect way to MOS Technology of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,” Scherrer told Technical.ly.
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