The 6502 is essentially a simplified, less expensive and faster version of the Motorola 6800, created by the same design team under the business name MOS Technology. Well, MOS Technology didn't last long, having been bought out by Commodore International and the new owners in turn licensed the chip to other manufacturers, one of which was Rockwell.
This device is NOS (New Old Stock) and has been sitting out in the workshop drawers for yonks JIC (Just In Case) but gee, we don't have any Apple II's or Commodore 64's sitting around here these days (and haven't for a long, long, long time!)
Perhaps someone would like to make use of this golden oldie microprocessor, do a little assembly language?
ROCKWELL Microprocessor
Type: R6502AP (R6502-13)
Manufacture date: 1986 September
Function: 8 bit microprocessor
40 pin plastic package DIL
Widely used in gaming consoles of the day (Commodore 64, BBC Micro & Atari to name just a few, early Apple computers.
Sure it dated, it's slow (2Mhz) and has limited abilites but these can still be fun to exercise your Assembly language on
Addresses up to 64K Bytes - Wow!
New Old Stock and safely stored in ESD material & sealed
