On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
> 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.
Thousands sold. A good number of them so they could play Peter Jennings'
(no relation I'm sure, at least not within the first three generations :)
Microchess. A chess program in 1K!
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