KIM-1

for **K**eyboard **I**nput **M**onitor, was a [|single board computer] by [|MOS Technology, Inc.], designed by [|Chuck Peddle], launched in 1976. The KIM-1 had a hexadecimal [|keypad] plus some control keys, six [|seven-segment displays] - four for the 16-bit address, and two for the 8-bit data, 1152 bytes of RAM, serial TTY port, 15 I/O pins, and a monitor program, a kind of micro-operating system, stored in a 2 kibibyte ROM, which allowed the user to enter and run programs in 6502 machine code, and to store and load programs to or from an [|audio cassette]. || toc =MicroChess= Peter Jennings originally developed MicroChess on a KIM-1 in 1976. Excerpt of his Oral History :
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 * [[image:KIM-1_Computer_Ad_May_1976.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KIM-1_Computer_Ad_May_1976.jpg"]] ||~  || **KIM-1**,
 * KIM-1 advertisement, May 1976 ||~  ||^   ||



=Publications=
 * Richard S. Simpson (**1976**). //A Date with KIM//. BYTE, May 1976
 * Peter Jennings (**1976**). //[|MicroChess, a Chess playing program for the 6502 Microcomputer]//. [|pdf], Courtesy of Peter Jennings, The Computer History Museum

=See also=
 * 6502
 * Commodore ChessMate
 * MicroChess

=External Links=
 * [|KIM-1 from Wikipedia]
 * [|KIM-1 6502]
 * [|What is the KIM-1?] from [|6502.org trainers]
 * [|Briel Computers micro-KIM]
 * [|Elektor Junior Computer from Wikipedia]
 * [|AIM-65 from Wikipedia]
 * [|DigiBarn: Peter Jennings and his MicroChess, Kim-1, and other wondrous artifacts]
 * [|KIM-1] from [|Computermuseum], [|University of Stuttgart]
 * [|KIM Uno - Summary] - KIM-1 replica with MicroChess » Arduino

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