I'm not sure how he got around this but I know he did this at a time when
the KIM was still in production and as I recall he did buy some specific
parts directly from the KIM-1 manufacture. I remember the kim keyboard
being genuine.
George
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George L. Rachor george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Hans Franke wrote:
> > I knew someone who built a KIM-1 from schematics. His departure is that
> > he did it all on the S100 bus. He ran it for a number of years while we
> > were in school together. I need to find out what happened to that
> > machine.
>
> KIM-1 from schematics ? And where did he get the
> 6530-2 and -3 without taking them from a real KIM ?
>
> I guess it was more like a KIM alike with 6532's
> (with a bit of additional decoding, changing two
> lines and just not using half of the RAM they could
> work as 6530 without ROM) and a 2716 (also with
> additional address decoding).
>
> I think about a KIM clone since almost two years
> (the KIM was my second computer, the first I did
> build myself), but I can'T come up with a solution
> for the 6530 problem other than building new chips,
> or changing the design. Also the keyboad might be
> a problem, together with various discrete parts,
> that are just look different nowadays. Even if the
> main parts are placed like in the original (maybe
> hiding the ROM below the CPU using SMD parts :) it
> will be a vissible diference, greater than just in
> the conection layer.
>
> Gruss
> Hans
>
> --
> Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
> HRK
>
Received on Wed Nov 04 1998 - 10:49:30 GMT