[porsupah]

Indeed - from the earlier, pioneering home computers like the PET and Apple II, through to the generation that followed, with the likes of the Commodore 64, VIC-20, and BBC Micro, the 6502 influenced a boggling number of programmers, myself included.

(And without the BBC Micro, would Acorn have eventually designed the Acorn RISC Machine, itself having since proven quite influential?)

[stephbu]

Yes, this. From this small seed grew a huge industry, the careers of millions of people, and products that literally changed the world. RIP.