This manual relates to the MOS 6500/1. The 6500 was not produced in
quantity because it was too close to the Motorola 6800. Chuck Peddle
quickly redesigned the chip into the fabled 1Mhz MOS / CSG 6502 (and several
derivatives like the 6509) which ran almost all Commodore equipment from
1978 to the mid 1980's. General information on all of the
650x line is available
in our History tab."The 6500/1 is
a complete high performance 8-bit NMOS microcomputer on a single chip and is
tottally upward / downward software compatible with all members of the 6500
family.
The 6500 /1 consists of a 6502 CPU,
and internal clock oscillator, 2048 bytes of Read Only Memory (ROM), 64
bytes of Random Access Memory (RAM) and flexible interace circutry.
The interface cicuitry includes a 16-bit programmable counter / latch with
four operating modes, 32 bidirectional input / ouput lines (including two
edge-sensitive lines). five interrupts and a couter I/O line."
This graphics below were converted from a
large .PDF on
Richard Cini's excellent site. It was reproduced October 14, 2002
with permission granted in July of 2002. Thanx again Richard! |