Yes, I remember very well. The first PET 2001 that was imported in the Netherlands. I was having one for a review for a magazine several weeks. My first review of a home computer!
Amazed at the power and functionality and the horrible keyboard!
get well soon!
06.03.2026 18:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And lets not forget the serial TTY support. Also bit-banging. Amazing what you can do with less than 2Kb of 6502 code and one 6530 RRIOT.
05.03.2026 18:08 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0As is the handling of the audio tape load and save. All bit-banging! So clever for the year it was written, 1975! No AI, no libraries and books full of 6502 knowledge, the first to crack this on a 6502. The KIM-1 monitor is an excellent study onject.
05.03.2026 18:06 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Here is a brief document showing commands available and an introduction to using the assembler: github.com/DavidJRichar...
Best regards, David
The KIM-1 had 1K of RAM and a hex keypad. No screen. No keyboard. No storage. And yet people wrote chess programs for it. In hex. By hand. We were not okay.
28.02.2026 17:02 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Adventue - Colossal Cave got a full port to the KIM-1 by Ryan Roth. What a Hero.
github.com/ryaneroth/Ad...
#65o2 #kim1
One ROM Hardware Guide: Getting Started with One ROM #1
#RetroComputing #OneROM #HardwareHacking #8bit #VintageComputing #ROM #Commodore #RetroTech #DIYElectronics
theoasisbbs.com/one-rom-hard...
The Jolt shipped in december 1975, see the Micro Associates newsletters. All about 6530 RRIOTs, it is a large family on my website retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/653...
21.02.2026 18:27 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I did not say that. The RRIOT KIM 6530-002 was designed in 1975. The KIM-1 with 6530-002 and 6530-003 shipped in 1976. The User manual is dated January 1976, advertisements and magazine articles appeared in the first quarter of 1976.
21.02.2026 18:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0welcome back, been quiet without you!
21.02.2026 17:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New project, cleanup and restore this KIM-1 . Poor thing still works but had a rough life. KIM-1 collection complete now ..
18.02.2026 10:00 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The RRIOTs 6530 -004 TIM and 6530-002 KIM were developed at the same time in 1975. The computers JOLT and KIM-1 shipped end 1975 begin 1976 based upon these.
18.02.2026 08:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0great!
18.02.2026 06:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0alas no manuals have surfaced yet. only dumps of the roms
16.02.2026 08:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Kicad design files added thanks Royce Taft!
retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/aim...
Royce Taft has a MACH-9 MMS Inc 6809 CPU Plug-in for AIM 65 and reverse engineered it.
He sent me his design to be published here.
retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/aim...
Full video of the KIM-1 kernal, functional disk drive, and authentic Commodore BASIC all running directly on a Commodore 1541 disk drive!!! Meet FranKIMstein youtu.be/yyDtIBbYES0
#Commodore #KIM1 #RetroComputing #C64Reposts
Troubleshoot a 6502?
See this session: atariprojects.org/2024/10/19/t...
The PLEASE package was published as two documents: INSTRUCTIONS and LISTING. In 2025 I received V2 of the LISTING and the Instruction. Jeff and Kenneth White received V1 of Vern Graner. All this including sources typed in now available here: retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim...
03.02.2026 16:02 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0i have tried to publish the Herwig Feichtunger books and the Funkschau articles all on my website.
01.02.2026 21:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0MB Immerzeel, a colleague at the magazine Radio Bulletin/Uitgeverijj de Muiderkring around 1980! and that was the last time we worked together.
01.02.2026 14:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Since this has only meaning with games and such the speed of the CPU also has to match 1 MHz. To run all First Book of KIM programs the timers also have to work.
01.02.2026 14:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What I am thinking about is having the hardware level update a virtual display in memory and having a timer/separate thread copy that virtual display from memory to the screen as static led segments.
01.02.2026 14:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Perhaps I could match 1 MHz. I do count cycles already. Might also help to implement timers of the 6532, as now it makes not much sense.
01.02.2026 14:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i failed also to add that to my emulator. Bit banging visual objects without flicker fast enough, that is hard. So I cheat, and only have hexadecimal via the patched KIM-1 monitor entry.
01.02.2026 09:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
You know the KIM-1 by now, but what about the SYM-1?
retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/synertek-sym-ktm/
KIM1 MOD replica KIM-1 by Voyageur.
Battery powered. FM1808 for ROM and RAM keeps contents.
From Google group PAL 6502 computer
Read aboutKIM1Mod :http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim-1-manuals-and-software/my-kim-1-family/kim-replicas-and-clones/kim-1-portable-version-made-by-voyageur6502/
I do use Facebook and Google groups though for interesting groups but no personal data, no real alternatives.
Twitter/X has crossed a line, that is beyond evil.