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Interview with Bill Mensch, 6502 Chip Co-Designer [audio]
- chmaynard 11y agoI love podcasts and listen to them all the time, but Hacker News is primarily about text. Could you post a transcript?
- ddingus 11y agoThat would be a very significant transcript effort.
- bane 11y agoI'd love to, but I don't know if anybody is transcribing the ANTIC podcasts at this point (somebody should though, because their interview collection is an amazing picture of early home computing and has lots of parallels that would be relevant to the HN crowd).
- ddingus 11y agoGreat interview.
- vidarh 11y agoAnyone who want more background on Bill Mensch and the 6502 and the other people around it should pick up Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: A Company on the Edge". Note that this is the first of two volumes of the second edition; the second covers the "Amiga years" and is not yet published (in progress thanks to a Kickstarter[1]) (The first edition was published as one volume, called "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"; it covers the entire period up to the bankruptcy in '94 in 561 pages, while "A Company on the Edge" covers just up until 1984 in the same 561 pages) [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-th...
- sgt 11y agoGlad to hear the second edition is happening after all. I highly recommend the Commodore book. It puts a new light on Commodore in ways I had not imagined. Jack Tramiel for instance. What a character he was.
- vidarh 11y agoYeah, I stubbornly held on to the pre-order at Amazon until it was cancelled, so was very happy to come across the Kickstarters. Looks like he's wrapped up more interviews than he expected to do, so hopefully it'll be good. I used both a C64 (and VIC-20) and Amiga for years, but it's the Amiga I loved the most so the Amiga-part in the first edition was not quite satisfying due to the limited space..