On the Commodore 64 at the Smithsonian
A few years ago, my wife and I went to the Smithsonian museum in DC where they have the computer exhibits. Old computers, like the ENIAC, PDP-11.. and the Commodore 64.
The information about the C64 said "The commodore 64 was powered by the Intel 8080 processor"
You know no idea how much this upset me. I mean, not so much that it was just plain wrong - after all, the commodore 64 was powered by a MOS 6510 processor, which was based on the MOS 6502, which itself was based on the Motorola 6800.
But the fact that they were wrong on something that is so easily verified - and probably 90% of the people who owned and heavily used their commodore 64's could probably tell you it wasn't an Intel processor. We *HATED* IBMs (and Ataris) and the thought of our beloved Commodore 64's being powered by an Intel processor was just horrid.
What else does the Smithsonian have wrong?
I wrote them a complaint letter. I'll be in DC later this month for CFUNITED, so maybe I'll swing by that museum to check to see if they fixed it. If they haven't, I'm going to raise hell.