With thanks to Jonathan Chapman of Glitchworks who found a Jolt system, here images of a Jolt with 4K memory, an experimenters board and the power supply. Here the images See also:A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1 Scroll, copy paste […]
With a scan of manuals by Gerben Voort, and a third photo of a cassette with KB-9, time to refresh the KB-9 pages. See also:A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1 Scroll, copy paste of the console. New versions of KIM-...KIM-1 […]
During the hot summer days, locked up in house because of the heat, I made a deep dive into the KIM-1 and the TIM/Jolt software and hardware. 50 years of working with a KIM-1: The KIM-1 Explained The Jolt, one of the first 6502 SBC’s, so nicely reproduced now: The TIM/Jolt explained. See also:A demo […]
Additions to the EMMA system documentation, thanks Keith Norman Emma Hardware Manual Eprom Programmer Mac User Manual See also:A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1 Scroll, copy paste of the console. New versions of KIM-...KIM-1 connectors: beware the Chinese cheap variants!The […]
The KIM-1 monitor surprises me every time I dive into it. The KIM-1 Explained is nearing completion. The KIM-1 explained There is a bug in the TTY CLI, it accepts characters as ‘;’ and ‘:’ as valid hex and translates to A..F. More about this innocent feature here: PRTBYT, GETBYT and PACK See also:A demo […]
An exapnsion for the MTU bus: RAMpager: a 1MB banked RAM expansion for the KIM-1 On this location you can find the open hardware source of a RAM card made for the MTU bus he RAMpager is a MTU banked RAM expansion for the KIM-1: the board supports up to 1MB (that’s three orders of […]
The Kempac system now is fully documented! See also:A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1 Scroll, copy paste of the console. New versions of KIM-...KIM-1 connectors: beware the Chinese cheap variants!The KIM-1 needs 2 edge connectors. The specifications are: card edge; […]
Thanks to Gerben Voort the source of the PIM-1 has been added to the PIM-1 page See also:A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1A demo of the new facilities in the KIM-1 Simulator 2.2.1 Scroll, copy paste of the console. New versions of KIM-...KIM-1 connectors: beware the Chinese cheap variants!The KIM-1 […]
The hardware and the software in the KIM-1 work closely together. The tiny program, less than 2KB in the two ROMs, together with the simple hardware, is very clever designed. The KIM-1 is a complete computer with two user interfaces and data storage with a simple namespace. It is one of the first 6502 computers, […]
A page on suppressing the KIM-1 echo of TTY input, read non-blocking and make the TTY input deaf. Problems with the KIM-1 TTY character input The KIM-1 hardware is hardware echoing incoming serial characters to the output, no echo in software involved, so you cannot influence what appears on screen. Very annoying! The KIM-1 GETCH […]