Its really incredible stuff. Personally, I think today's chips are pretty wimpy. Give me a Mips R8000 or Alpha 21264! But seriously, I think the lack of diversity with regards to chip design has been fairly detrimental to advances in computing.

Nothing but love for this chip. It was the first thing I started programming as a geek-in-training, back in1981. I'm now a well-adjusted professor using using computational science, numerical simulation, and some of the fastest supercomputers in the world, to solve challenging problems. I owe it all to the folks that developed the 6502, and my mom who bought me an Atari 400, then an 800XL. Cheers!

Typing in that code was pure torture. The good thing is that it helped me learn better coding. And you're right - the wait for the next magazine with the correction was too long. Now I do coding (scientific computation) for a living and so much of it is due to the Byte/Compute programming experiences. Cheers!