JKCalhoun
(Now if hard drives had not become so damn expensive—it's getting harder to be a digital hoarder like myself.)
(Which may say more about how low the bar is these days with our enshittified Web.)
It was more space, robotics, vehicles—less about appliances, the home…
No?
All the RAM belongs to me is not too far off…
Who said the above? Was it:
1) the head of the public transportation department in 1930?
2) the CEO of IBM in the 1970's?
3) Sam Altman in 2026?
I have a PAL-2 [1] (a modern KIM-1 re-creation) and started learning 6502 by entering programs from The First Book of KIM [2].
I wanted to be able to compile/link the assembly from the book so leaned on Claude to set up a 6502 dev environment for my Mac. I put everything needed (and instructions) on GitHub [3].
(Claude also has been helpful in re-formatting the 6502 code from The First Book of KIM into a more modern style compatible with modern assemblers. A few of these modernized programs I added to the GitHub repo above.)
As it happens, I am also fixing/formatting The First Book of KIM by recreating it in a modern page-layout app (Affinity Publisher). The PDF scans that are out there are not pretty, have OCR errors (and the book itself has mistakes). Hopefully I'll have a new version of the book/PDF out on the internet by the year's end.
[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/kim1/pal-2-a-mos-6502-powere...
That or something like the Public Works Administration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration).
(And you get infrastructure out of it.)
(Such a brilliant edit: https://youtu.be/5FJaoRLpf7M?si=iAinUlOIZw3u89Jw&t=85)
Other, less capable (1802 & 6502 processors) Altoid computers:
https://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/memship.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/beneater/comments/15k19xp/be6502_in...
https://www.youtube.com/@designedinca
(Specifically they talk about Be beginning: https://youtu.be/5IFxwnXASyQ)