Arizonan Bill Mensch, engineer and entrepreneur, will discuss his work with the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 chip technologies and beyond. He is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Western Design Center, holds 22 patents for microprocessors, microprocessor peripheral devices and microprocessor systems, and was recognized in both 1991 and 1996 at the Microprocessor Forum as a pioneer in the microprocessor industry.

Mr. Mensch’s patents were used on Motorola’s original NMOS 6800 microprocessor and MOS Technology’s NMOS 6502 microprocessor families. The 6502 technology has been credited with creating the PC and video game industries. It was first used in the Commodore PET personal computer; Vic 20 consumer computer; Commodore 64 consumer computer (6510); Acorn personal computer; Apple I personal computer; Apple II personal computer; Atari video game system (6507) and personal computer (6502); and Nintendo video game system. The 6502 microprocessor is featured in a display in the Smithsonian Museum of Science and Technology in Washington DC.

For more information, please visit Bill’s wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch, or his company website, http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/.