--- title: Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor | daily.dev description: Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502 processor, discusses his engineering career, the development of the 6502, and the popularity of the 65x series chips among... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor | daily.dev og:description: Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502 processor, discusses his engineering career, the development of the 6502, and the popularity of the 65x series chips among... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/L6BtCyEoC.png og:image:alt: Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502 processor, discusses his engineering career, the development of the 6502, and the popularity of the 65x series chips among retrocomputing enthusiasts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#retrocomputing](https://daily.dev/tags/retrocomputing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc"},"datePublished":"2023-12-13T18:27:32.877Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T07:14:15.840Z","description":"Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502 processor, discusses his engineering career, the development of the 6502, and the popularity of the 65x series chips among...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a073af98df0c283758294476c603e650?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a073af98df0c283758294476c603e650?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor-l6btcyeoc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"retrocomputing","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor"}]} ```