What do you call the 6502 in english?

[Petruza]

What do you call the 6502 in english?
- Sixty Five Oh Two
- Sixty Five Zero Two
- Six Five Oh Two
- Six Five Zero Two
- Other

I'm not a native speaker and always saw it written with numbers

[peppers]

Six Five Oh Two

[blargg]

Sixty Five Oh Two, but I've probably never talked in person with anyone about it. Why not make this into a poll?

[Petruza]

Because a poll is anonymous?

[tomaitheous]

Sixty Five Oh Two

^ This. But sometimes, "sixty five ex"

[Kasumi]

Six Five Oh Two as well, for me.

[peppers]

Six Five Zero Two would be ok too although it would sound just a little funny, the first 2 are not correct, if you said six thousand five hundred and two people would get what you mean in the context as well (if you actually meet anybody who would know what it meant.)

I usually say zero in place of oh when saying a phone number so it is better understood. or when speaking to people from India as they often have a hard time understanding what is said to them.

[Banshaku]

I'm not english native but what came first when thinking about it was "six five oh two". I don't think I heard it somewhere. Maybe just habit to be with native english speakers in the past.

[Memblers]

With everyone I've ever talked to and heard from it always sixty-five-oh-two. There's a really interesting audio interview with Chuck Peddle if you want to go to the original source.

[dr_sloppy]

Sixtyfive oh two.

[tomaitheous]

With everyone I've ever talked to and heard from it always sixty-five-oh-two. There's a really interesting audio interview with Chuck Peddle if you want to go to the original source.

6809 was the same way. I specifically remember people saying sixty-eight-oh-nine. Or for 68000, sixty-eight-thousand or sixty-eight-kay.



Saying "oh" for zero was very popular in the US, pre 90's. And sixty-five makes sense, because people would very often say a number like 6500 as sixty-five-hundred, instead of six-thousand-five-hundred. I think the only time when you said something like six-five-zero(or "oh")-two is when you wanted to be very clear about the number (when placing a number sensitive order or something). Otherwise when a number is turned into a name, like this processor model, you tend to get the popular version/conversion that rolls off the tongue much easier. At least here in the States. Not sure about other English speaking countries.

[Dwedit]

Six five oh two.
But 68000 is Sixty-eight Kay.

And of course, there's also the zee-eighty. Sorry Brits.

[Celius]

Six-five-oh-two. Never heard it said by anyone besides myself ever (wow, that's really weird to think about!).

[peppers]

Really I don't think anybody you might be talking to about such an obscure topic is going to care about the way you say it and will understand what you mean by the context of the conversation.

Six Five Oh Two seems to be the most natural way to pronounce it for most people in the Americas but there is no one 100% accepted way to pronounce it since its not a common topic so just say it how you like.

Also 99% of the people in English speaking country's will have no idea what a 6502 processor is no matter how you say it.

[MetalSlime]

sixty-five oh two for me. six five oh two sounds unnatural coming out of my mouth.