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[ KIM-1 advertisement, May 1976 [1] KIM-1,

for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a single board computer by MOS Technology, Inc., designed by Chuck Peddle, launched in 1976. The KIM-1 had a hexadecimal keypad plus some control keys, six seven-segment displays - four for the 16-bit address, and two for the 8-bit data, 1152 bytes of RAM, serial TTY port, 15 I/O pins, and a monitor program, a kind of micro-operating system, stored in a 2 kibibyte ROM, which allowed the user to enter and run programs in 6502 machine code, and to store and load programs to or from an audio cassette.

Publications#

• Richard S. Simpson (1976). A Date with KIM. BYTE, May 1976
• Peter Jennings (1976). MicroChess, a Chess playing program for the 6502 Microcomputer. pdf, Courtesy of Peter Jennings, The Computer History Museum

See also#

• 6502
• Commodore ChessMate
• MicroChess

External Links#

• KIM-1 from Wikipedia
• KIM-1 6502
• What is the KIM-1? from 6502.org trainers
• Briel Computers micro-KIM
• Elektor Junior Computer from Wikipedia
• AIM-65 from Wikipedia
• DigiBarn: Peter Jennings and his MicroChess, Kim-1, and other wondrous artifacts
• KIM-1 from Computermuseum, University of Stuttgart
• KIM Uno - Summary - KIM-1 replica with MicroChess » Arduino

References#

1. ↑ The introductory advertisement for the KIM-1 microcomputer. This appeared in the May 1976 issue of BYTE magazine along with a four page review of the KIM-1, “A Date with KIM” by Richard Simpson, scanned by Michael Holley, August 2009, KIM-1 from Wikipedia
2. ↑ Peter Jennings (1976). MicroChess, a Chess playing program for the 6502 Microcomputer. pdf, Courtesy of Peter Jennings, The Computer History Museum
3. ↑ Sellam Ismail (2005). Oral History of Peter Jennings. pdf and Video from The Computer History Museum

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