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The website's video cover is a remake of that classic photo by EE Times that shows the 6502 team members holding the chip layout, which is excellent. Unfortunat
by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
The website's video cover is a remake of that classic photo by EE Times that shows the 6502 team members holding the chip layout, which is excellent. Unfortunately, it copied the original mistake by EE Times in print [0] as well: the image is improperly mirrored by the Y-axis, it makes all people left-handed and the flipped the layout as well!
If you compare the 6502 layout using the dieshot by the Visual6502 team [1], you can clearly see that the layout is flipped. Note the location of the T-shaped and L-shaped circuits at the bottom-left and bottom-right.
[0] https://research.swtch.com/6502 https://research.swtch.com/6502
> An EE Times article from August 1975 shows a picture of the 6502 team, along with a caption listing Harry Bawcom as a “layout designer” and Bill Mensch as a “design engineer,” which seems to corroborate Bawcom's note. (Note that the photo printed in the article has been mirror-image reversed.)
[1] http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
- tyingq 7y agoHere's the EE Times photo: http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/magazines/misc/mos_605x_team_eetimes_august_1975.pdf http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/magazines/misc/mos_605x_team...