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Author : emabolo
8 March 2026, 7:27 am
Legendary engineer Chuck Peddle died on December 15, 2019. In case you didn't know, Chuck Peddle is the creator of the 6502 chip, the 8-bit microprocessor that started the home computer revolution. He also designed the KIM-1, probably the world's first single-board computer, and the Commodore PET, one of the first three personal computers, released in 1977.
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8 March 2026, 7:27 am
It's time to start talking about real games in this third chapter of the series.
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8 March 2026, 7:27 am
In this second chapter of the story, we'll see what happened in the two years following the release of the home computers.
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8 March 2026, 7:27 am
Let's start this long journey from the year of the Trinity: 1977, when the first home computers were released.
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8 March 2026, 7:27 am
If you own a computer today, it's either a PC or a Mac. Instead, not too many years ago, the world was full of crazy, tiny - and marvelous - machines called home computers. They had fancy names such as Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari 800, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, and more. It was the golden age of 8-bit and 16-bit technology.
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