Chuck Peddle

Charles Ingerham “Chuck” Peddle (November 25, 1937 – December 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer. He was born in Bangor, Maine. He was best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, as well as the KIM-1 SBC (single-board computer) and the Commodore PET PC (personal computer).
Peddle died at the age of 82 on December 15, 2019 at his Santa Cruz, California home of pancreatic cancer.