Re: Commodore and Apple

["White Flame \(aka David Holz\)" <NOSPAMwhiteflame52@yahoo.com>]

"Anders Carlsson" <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote in message
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> I don't know if this in any way contrasts the story on the webpage or
> the quote from Wozniak, but *if* Peddle already had spent some time
> talking Apple into using the 6502 to build a computer, would he return
> to evaluate if the final design was worth for Commodore to buy, in
> particular if he already was considering developing a computer of
> his own?

Well, if the show "Pirates of Silicon Valley" is to be believed (Woz himself
says it's quite accurate about the history of Apple), he was building a
self-made computer for a hobby, and along with Jobs, started building &
selling them to computer user clubs & mail order after everybody started
drooling over them, eventually turning into a business more reputable than
selling phreaking equipment. ;)  I doubt that during the development of the
original Apple that they were anybody that a chip manufacturer would
approach about using their chips.  However, it does seem sensible that
hackers soldering together computers in their bedroom would be reading up on
the CPU industry and desire to use the latest, most interesting, and
affordable chips.

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