The 6507 (typically "sixty-five-oh-seven" or "six-five-oh-seven") is an 8-bit microprocessor from MOS Technology, Inc. It is a version of their 40-pin...
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MOS Technology, Inc. ("MOS" being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor), later known as CSG (Commodore Semiconductor Group) and GMT Microelectronics, was...
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Atari 2600 (section MOS Technology 6502/6507)
a planned 6507 microprocessor, a cost-reduced version of the 6502, and MOS's RIOT chip for input/output. Cyan and MOS negotiated the 6507 and RIOT chips...
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The MOS Technology 6502 (typically pronounced "sixty-five-oh-two" or "six-five-oh-two") is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by a small team led...
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Peddle offering Atari the use of the lower-cost MOS Technology 6507 processor and the MOS Technology 6532 RAM-I/O-Timer (RIOT) as the core of the design...
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The Atari 2600 hardware was based on the MOS Technology 6507 chip, offering a maximum resolution of 160 x 192 pixels (NTSC), 128 colors, 128 bytes of...
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known as the Atari 2600), was released in 1977 and based on the MOS Technology 6507 microprocessor, with a cartridge design influenced in part by the...
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Home video game console (category Technology-related lists)
(CPU) Atari 2600 September 11, 1977 Atari Inc. (U.S.) ca. 30 million MOS Technology 6507 8-bit (CPU) APF-MP1000 January 1, 1978 APF (U.S.) > 50,000 Motorola...
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The MOS Technology 6508 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology. Based on the popular 6502, the 6508 is augmented with two additional features:...
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power was required - the Atari 810 floppy disk drive included a MOS Technology 6507 for instance. Additionally, the large custom connector was expensive...
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Flashback 4 also features wireless controllers based on infrared technology. CPU: MOS Technology 6507 @ 1.19 MHz Audio+video processor: TIA. 160 x ≈192 pixel,...
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microprocessors had fewer than 16 address pins: for example, the MOS Technology 6507 (a reduced pin count version of the 6502) was used in the Atari 2600...
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Transistor (category 1947 in technology)
1948 inversion layer concept forms the basis of CMOS technology today. The CMOS (complementary MOS) was invented by Chih-Tang Sah and Frank Wanlass at...
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American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor...
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recommended as a partner to Atari, Inc. after it had been decided to use the MOS 6507 for their upcoming Atari VCS home video game console. One of Atari's engineers...
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own microprocessor, or an inexpensive dedicated microprocessor like the MOS 6507 or Zilog Z80. Early controllers required additional circuitry to perform...
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Sometimes referred to by Atari as "6502C", but not the same as the official MOS Technology 6502C. RAM: 4 KB (2 6116 2Kx8 RAM ICs) ROM: built in 4 KB BIOS ROM,...
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the 810. It used a MOS 6507 as the SIO bus controller, running at 1 MHz rather than 500 kHz of the 810. The 6507 was aided by a MOS 6532 RIOT/PIA and a...
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depletion-load fabrication line did not go as well as it did for companies like MOS Technology, and by the end of 1976 they were still struggling with yields. By the...
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such as a cassette tape or CD player. As the 2600 uses the 6507, a variant of the MOS Technology 6502 processor, most games are written in 6502 assembly...
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management refused to fund development, he left and moved to MOS Technology. Their MOS 6502 was designed specifically for the Micralign in mind, with...
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provided graphics and sound support to its stripped-down MOS Technology 6502-derivative, the 6507. Due to the high price of computer memory, the TIA was...
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