On 1/4/2020 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Announcing the first keynote speaker committed to VCF East 2020: Bill Mensch!!!
For those who may not know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch "Along with three other engineers at MOS Technology, Mensch holds the patent on the decimal correct circuitry in the 6502 CPU. He was responsible for the basic circuit design, transistor sizing, instruction decode logic (wishing to minimize the number of levels of logic so as to achieve higher speed operation), oscillator design and buffer design. Prior to leaving MOS Technology in 1977, Bill Mensch became the microprocessor design manager at the company." Oh, and: "Mensch's next design, which was to become an important product at WDC, was a 65C02-compatible 16-bit microprocessor, the 65C816 (now designated the W65C816S). The 65C816's design came about following consultation with Apple and was adopted by them for use in the Apple IIGS computer. The 65C816 was later chosen as the core of the processing unit that powered the popular Super Nintendo Entertainment System." Much more about the 6502 coming soon (45th year anniversary!). I can whet everyone's appetite and say we will be offering 6502 assembly classes on both Saturday and Sunday. Which, it immediately dawns on me, means that I will be teaching beginning 6502 to people with Bill Mensch on the same campus, maybe in the same room. Pardon me while I go freak out. Best wishes, -Adam