KIM BUS -- coincidence

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 13:32:00 2005

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Scott Austin wrote:

> As most of you know (or if you look closely at the various photos on
> the web) the Kim-1 has 2 edge connector areas ("A" and "E"). Each side
> (top and bottom) of each edge connector has 22 contacts (i.e. 44 on the
> A connector edge and 44 on the E connector edge). Sorry, it doesn't
> easily add up to 100 any which way.

Yeah, the name appears to be coincidental. It was simply "6502"
plus the text "KIM BUS" on a connector right next to it...

BTW, I didn't really mean to slag the KIM-1. It's a great machine,
in spite of it's rarity today it was pretty damn influential.
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 13:32:00 GMT