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WESCON
Genre	Consumer electronics
Country	United States

WESCON, an initialism for Western Electronics Show and Convention was an electronics industry trade show and conference in the western United States. It was held annually since 1951 and was a platform for companies to showcase their products and for attendees to learn about the latest developments in the field.^[1]. On September 16th, the famous 8-bit CPU 6502 is presented.^[2]

WESCON may also be:

• Western Connecticut State University
• Wescon - Precision Aviation Tools
• Wescon Group
• WESCCON - Pacific Coast Council of Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association Inc.

"World War II, there was a fledgling electronics industry that started to grow in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Angeles area that was directly impacted by World War II in that in order to be able to manufacture, to hold personnel to get materials, you had to be involved in the war effort. It seemed that the Pentagon felt the West Coast ran north and south through Chicago and there wasn’t much beyond that. So the people in the electronics industry here realized that they had to do something to draw attention to the West Coast as a manufacturing research and development area relative to electronics. They formed a trade association known as West Coast Electronic Manufacturers Association. The acronym of that is WEMA. They successfully lobbied to get contracts here on the West Coast." - Bruce Angwin ^[3]

Wescon in Los Angeles, in 1943, I believe. Wescon , in 1945, in San Francisco. - Bruce Angwin ^[4]

https://ethw.org/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=wescon&go=Go Engineering and Technology History Wiki

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Bruce_Angwin Wescon Beginnings: WEMA and IRE - Oral-History:Bruce Angwin

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:IEEE_Orange_County_Section_Early_History_with_Details_about_the_L.A._Council,_Wescon_And_Personalities_Thereof IEEE History interviews with Bruce Angwin, Los Angeles and Bud Eldon, San Francisco and former IEEE President

returned some $150,000,000. to its IRE and IEEE owners over the years.

This is the first Wescon...At the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/50s/Electronics-1958-08-02.pdf WESCON PROGRAM and SHOW GUIDE

https://www.eetimes.com/jay-last-fairchild-semi-co-founder-builder-of-1st-commercial-ic-dies-at-92/ In just ten months, Fairchild went from an empty building to a working silicon transistor, which the company demonstrated at Wescon in 1958.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/07/102710167-05-01-acc.pdf WESCON 1960 ... convenes in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena from August 23 through the 26th

Miss Fairchild Semiconductor will win a champagne dinner for two at L'Omelette French Restaurant. El Camino Real in Palo Alto, Founded in 1932 by Andre Frelier

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Tele-Tech/60s/Electronic-Industries-1962-08.pdf AUGUST 1962 11th annual western issue ...We believe it is appropriate to unveil our new cover on the occasion of our eleventh annual. WESCON issue. ... Los Angeles— I98 S. Alvarado St. (Area Code 213) ...

Attendance for 1973 was 27,436^[5]

Attendance for 1974 was 28,212^[6]

The 24th annual Western Electronic Show and Convention was held from September 16 to 19, in Brooks Hall and Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA.^[7].

On the September 16th, 8-bit CPUs 6501 and 6502 are presented^[2].

In the year 1976 the Wescon celebrate its 25th (silver) anniversary^[8]. About 35.000 visitors flock to the Los Angeles Convention Center from the September 14 to the 17. Over 400 companies were present.

In the 1978 the wescon was held from the September 12 to the September 14^[9] Theme of this year is "Micro/Evolution".

Category:Trade shows in the United States Category:Consumer electronics

WESCON (Western Electronic Show and Convention)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6367416/ Special report: WESCON '75: The week in brief

https://books.google.com/books/about/1975_Wescon_Professional_Program.html?id=IklGAQAAIAAJ 1975 Wescon Professional Program

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006899246 WESCON conference record

https://www.applefritter.com/content/prototype-apple-1 iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (2006) by Steve Wozniak "I started noticing articles saying that a new, superior-sounding microprocessor was going to be introduced soon at a show, WESCON, in San Francisco. It especially caught my attention that this new microprocessor - the 6502 from MOS Technologies [sic] in Pennsylvania - would be pin-for-pin compatible with, electrically the same as, the Motorola 6800 I had drafted my design around." .... "Right on the spot I bought a few for $20 each, plus a $5 manual. Now I had the parts I needed to start constructing the computer."

https://www.cpushack.com/2013/08/03/mos-technology-mcs6501-processor/

https://laughingsquid.com/the-6502-microprocessor-turns-35/

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8521&view=previous 6502.org • View topic - Happy 50th birthday, 6502!

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/65-reasons-to-celebrate-the-6502 65 Reasons To Celebrate The 6502 - The Chip Letter

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/400367 WESCON technical papers v. 1-22; 1957-1978 in SearchWorks catalog - Conferences for 1957-62 sponsored by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Sections of the Institute of Radio Engineers and the Western Electronic Manufacturers' Association (called 1957-62, West Coast Electronic Manufacturers' Association); 1963- by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers San Francisco Section and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Los Angeles Section.

https://test.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/bib/cb6869906 WESCON technical papers. The New York Public Library - San Francisco Section · Western Electronic Manufacturers Association. Place of publication. [Los Angeles]. Publication date. 1963-1976. Uniform title. WESCON ...

https://sphere.computer/history.html Sphere Corp was founded in the early months of 1975 in Bountiful, Utah. Mike Wise was the company's leader and product visionary. He was soon joined by hardware engineer Monroe Tyler and software engineer Eric Jameson, who began work on a microcomputer based around the Motorola 6800 microprocessor...Sphere traveled the country giving seminars about the system to curious engineers and hobbyists. The company attended Wescon ’75 in San Francisco and made a side trip to demonstrate at the Homebrew Computer Club. Wise and other Sphere staff were also present later at BYTE's Kansas City symposium to collaborate on a microcomputer data cassette standard.

https://wdc65xx.com/50-years-of-the-6502/

https://tedspence.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-6502-gaming-31b84e2d0cd At the WESCON trade show in September 1975, Chuck Peddle set up a table with two glass jars full of 6502 chips along with a sign: “$25”....To encourage customers to work with the 6502, Chuck Peddle embarked on a sales tour. He built a demonstration computer, the KIM-1, and produced manuals and sales materials.

https://books.google.com/books?id=9-aoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=6502+trade+show+introduction Making Games for the Atari 2600 By Steven Hugg : "At the WESCON trade show in September 1975, Chuck Peddle set up a table with two glass jars full of 6502 chips along with a sign: “$25”."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of-fame-mos-technology-6502-microprocessor Chip Hall of Fame: MOS Technology 6502 Microprocessor From the heroic age of 8-bit CPUs, this processor powered the Apple II, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and more

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/65-reasons-to-celebrate-the-6502 The 6502 team took their new microprocessor to the WESCON trade show in San Francisco in September 1975. To show it off they wanted to sell the new chips and to show that they had lots of working processors. The only problem was that they only had some that worked and lots of chips that didn’t. The solution, place the 6502s in large jars with the working ones at the top and the duds at the bottom. When a customer bought one the team took a working 6502 from the top of the jar.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4229433A/Western_Electronic_Show_and_Convention Western Electronic Show and Convention

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/html/tr/AD0604452/index.html

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Western%20Electronic%20Show%20and%20Convention

https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1095-791X ISSN 1095-791X - WESCON conference proceedings ISSN 1095-791X

https://wdc65xx.com/50-years-of-the-6502/

MOS Technology 6502 MOS_Technology_6502#Introducing_the_6501_and_6502

WESCON
Genre	Consumer electronics
Country	United States

WESCON, an initialism for Western Electronics Show and Convention was a trade show and conference in the western United States for the electronics industry. It was held annually since 1951 and was a platform for companies to showcase their products and for attendees to learn about the latest developments in the field.^[1].

On September 16th, the famous 8-bit CPU 6502 was presented[5].

Attendance for 1973 was 27,436^[2]

Attendance for 1974 was 28,212^[3]

The 24th annual Western Electronic Show and Convention was held from September 16 to 19, in Brooks Hall and Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA.^[4].

On September 16th, 8-bit CPUs 6501 and 6502 were presented^[5].

In the year 1976 the Wescon celebrated its 25th (silver) anniversary^[6]. About 35,000 visitors flocked to the Los Angeles Convention Center from September 14 to the 17. Over 400 companies were present.

In 1978 the wescon was held from September 12 to September 14^[7] The theme of this year was "Micro/Evolution".

• Apple I

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