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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
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Date: 2 Aug 88 05:22:43 GMT
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bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
+In article <1238@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
+>
+>[...]  Jobs has said that when he was looking for a chip, the 6809
+>was really expensive, and the 6502 was really cheap.  I remember something
+>about Motorola saying (in a memo) that the 6502 was something cheap
+>to fill in the gap between the 6809 and the bottom of the chip market.  [...]
+
+I'm amazed that a big corporation would do something with a few-buck part
+to make life easier for the consumer; alas, the days of personality in
+personal computing are almost gone.  Kudos and Huzza to Motorola.

I really doubt all this -- Motorola didn't make the 6502, MOStek did.  MOStek
may have been ex-Moto designers, but the 6502 wasn't a Motorola product.  Moto
had other members of the 6800 family to fill in under the 6809.  As for prices,
you can compare those in new issues of Byte, or maybe Computer Shopper will do
better.
-- 
	bob,mon				(bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
"`This must be deep' means `I can recognize all these words individually,
but dam' if I can make any sense out of the order in which they currently
appear....'"	- Gil Scott Herron