The big difference of course is tooling (CAD tooling) ten years after that I was knocking out that many timed gates a year myself, 5 years later, maybe 5 times

The big difference of course is tooling (CAD tooling) ten years after that I was knocking out that many timed gates a year myself, 5 years later, maybe 5 times more again - that world has changed a lot from the 6502 which was done with litho and modelling knives