Charles Petzold
- March 10, 2024
- American Programmer
Quick Facts
| Date Of Birth | Feb 2, 1953(1953-02-02) |
| Age | 71 |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Charles Petzold Biography
| Birthday | Feb 2 |
| Birth Year | 1953 |
| Place Of Birth | New Jersey |
Charles Petzold is one of the most popular and richest American programmer who was born on February 2, 1953 in New Brunswick, Canada. As of June 1, 2023, Charles Petzold has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Petzold purchased a two-diskette IBM PC in 1984 for $5,000. This debt encouraged him to use the PC to earn some revenue so he wrote an article about ANSI.SYS and the PROMPT command. This was submitted to PC Magazine for which they paid $800. This was the beginning of Petzold’s career as a paid writer.
Charles Petzold (born February 2, 1953) is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and was named one of Microsoft’s seven Windows Pioneers.
He had an interest in electronic music and in 1977 started building electronic music instruments out of CMOS chips. In 1979, Petzold started building a computer-controlled digital electronic music synthesizer based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. This experience of digital circuitry and assembly language programming formed the basis of his book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.
In 1984, PC Magazine decided to do a review of printers. They asked all current New York contributors to help with the review. Petzold showed the staff some small assembly-language programs he had written. Soon he was busy writing little 300-500 byte .COM file utilities for PC Magazine.
Charles Petzold Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | American programmer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Charles Petzold is one of the richest American programmer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Charles Petzold 's net worth $5 Million.
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Charles Petzold
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Facts & Trivia
Ranked on the list of most popular American programmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Charles Petzold celebrates birthday on February 2 of every year.