In Popular Culture
- In the science fiction movie The Terminator (1984, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), the audience at one point is treated to a view through the T-800 Model-101 robot character's eye/camera of a display of a 6502 assembly language program fragment.
- Bender, a fictional "industrial robot" manufactured in 2998, and a main character in the animated TV series Futurama created by Matt Groening, was revealed to have a 6502 as his "brain" in the episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory". David X. Cohen (the head writer and executive producer of Futurama) has claimed in an interview with IEEE Spectrum that he and friends David Borden and David Schiminovich wrote a compiler (for a custom language they created named "FLEET") for the Apple II Plus, which uses the 6502, while at high school, and confirmed that this led him to include the reference in the show.
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