Chuck Peddle Invented the Personal Computer
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:47 pm
We usually get about 1500 unique visitors on http://www.commodore.ca every weekday but on Tuesday we pulled in about 19000.
Needless to say the site (and all our other sites on this server) were pinned so I investigated and found that the traffic was the result of single thread on http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dt5um which is all about how my friend and all around amazing guy, Chuck Peddle invented the Personal Computer:
It was refreshing to see someone give Chuck the credit he so richly deserves. GO CHUCK!
Needless to say the site (and all our other sites on this server) were pinned so I investigated and found that the traffic was the result of single thread on http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dt5um which is all about how my friend and all around amazing guy, Chuck Peddle invented the Personal Computer:
Normally when then happens I limit the traffic to the site in question but in this case, if people were willing to wait for the page to load, I was willing to have the server and my internet bills maxed out.It is about time for some personal computing history revision: neither Steve Jobs or Bill Gates invented the personal computer. It is really all about Chuck Peddle, the guy that designed the 6502 and said "There is nothing nice about Steve Jobs and nothing evil about Bill Gates."
It was refreshing to see someone give Chuck the credit he so richly deserves. GO CHUCK!