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Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by blackhaz on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:31AM (#38162337)
Holy cow. It is incredible how versatile this little thing is. I wonder if anyone has succeeded building a personal computer out of it, with keyboard and tape.
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by classichasclass on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:48AM (#38162516)
Of course. There are many such examples of homebrew kits with tape and TTY; I routinely use a serial port connection as TTY over the 20mA current loop with my briefcase KIM that also has the tape lines brought out to a 1/4" TRS jack, though uploading binaries over the serial link is more handy for testing. The TVT 6 5/8 was an easy to assemble video board, or the cool kids had an MTU 8K RAM expansion that emitted the contents as a 320x200 composite image.

In fact, the AIM-65 was basically a heavily expanded KIM with a LED screen, printer, keyboard and tape all in one box from the factory.

Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by TedDoesntTalk on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:12AM (#38162801)
You like the word 'handy'. It's in the blog post twice and once in your comment here.
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by cpach on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:14AM (#38162824)
It wasn’t 'classichasclass who wrote the blog post…
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by jgrahamc on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:47AM (#38163317)
I suppose I do, but to make you happy I've changed one use of handy to nifty.
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by TedDoesntTalk on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:31AM (#38163906)
Trivia: handy means 'mobile phone' in Austrian German
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by whartung on Monday November 06, 2023 @01:01PM (#38166137)
Trivia bit.

For those that don't know, the Cal Poly Universities at Pomona and San Luis Obispo collaborate on the annual Rose Parade Float.

Back in the day, they would win awards for their motion control and animation work. Much of that work was done down at Pomona.

And the computer they used as the control computer in those early days was the AIM-65.

Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by djmips on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:29AM (#38163031)
Dave's Garage on YouTube has some videos on him aquiring a fairly built out Kim-1 with keyboard and video display IIRC.
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by mysterydip on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:51AM (#38163373)
I remember many years ago a school teacher let me borrow a book where someone made a robot out of a KIM-1: https://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1976-mike-microt...
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by dboreham on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:24AM (#38163810)
Not sure if that was ironic, but the Apple I , then Apple II was exactly that. Also the PET.
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by blackhaz on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:37AM (#38163974)
Sorry, this was before my times and in a land far away. I started with the ZX Spectrum.
Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by timbit42 on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:09PM (#38168214)
Yes. This is exactly what happened.

The KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) was created by Chuck Peddle at MOS Technology, which later was bought by Commodore, so the MOS Technology KIM-1 became the Commodore KIM-1. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1)

Peddle then expanded the KIM-1 into the Commodore PET 2001 with case, monitor, keyboard and tape drive all built in. The 2 KB TIM (Terminal Input Monitor) ROM in the KIM-1 was expanded into the 4 KB KERNAL ROM in the PET. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET)

Of course, then the PET was upgraded with additional models including the 3032, 4032, 8032, 8096, 8296 and the SuperPET, then the CBM-II series and the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 128 and the unreleased Commodore 65.