IT Archeology
or how I became a programmer
Maciej Małecki
@mmalecki77
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1989» BASIC → 6502 Asm → Turbo Pascal → x86 Asm → C++ → Delphi → Java → JavaScript → TypeScript → ? »2019
Forgotten Hero
Chuck Peddle
http://www.histoireinform.com/Histoire/+infos2/chr4infp.htm
Chuck joined Motorola in 1973
IDEA
cheap version of MC6800
300$ → 20$
Altair 8800 - 1974
MOS 6502 - 1975
Motorola lawsuit
November 1975
KIM-1 1975
By MOS_KIM-1_IMG_4211.jpg:
Rama & Musée Bolore-framing: Tomer T (talk)scale:
Rama - Ten plik jest fragmentem
innego pliku: MOS KIM-1 IMG 4211.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0
fr, Link
Two guys struggling with their design
Apple I: finally revealed in 1976
November 1976
Commodore acquires MOS Technology
What was Commodore doing at this moment?
Calculators based on MOS chips
1977
By Photographer: Tomislav Medak from Flickr / Editing: Bill Bertram (Pixel8) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/3803230853/,
CC
BY-SA 3.0, Link
The 1977 Trinity
By Springsgrace - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79216985
1978: Peddle goes to Apple to join Lisa project
bye bye $$$ :-(
Peddle leaves Apple in 1979, joins Commodore again
bye bye even more $$$ :-(
1980: Peddle leaves Commodore for good
Got sued by Commodore; bye bye rest of $$$
meanwhile Commodore sells over 1 million of VIC-20...
a record to be soon beaten by Commodore 64
1982-1994, 12.5-17 million
Where can we find 6502 and its variants?
Apple II
Commodore PET 2001
Atari VCS
Atari 800
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
Atari 7800
BBC Micro
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Entertainment System
Apple IIe
CBM II
Commodore Plus/4
Commodore 128
Tomagotchi
Racing the beam
A Carol Shaw story
An author of River Raid game (1982)
https://info.umkc.edu/unews/celebrating-women-in-stem-carol-shaw/
WIKI Commons, PD
128 bytes of RAM!
Live coding in Assembly?
It's gonna be fun
All stuff on Github
https://github.com/maciejmalecki/chamberconf2019
IT Archeology
or how I became a programmer