Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1

https://github.com/netzherpes/KIM1-Demo

#HackerNews #Happy #50th #Birthday #KIM-1 #KIM1 #Demo #RetroComputing #TechAnniversary #VintageComputers

Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/commodore-disk-drive-becomes-general-purpose-computer/

The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, is a small 6502-based single-board computer developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc. and launched in 1976. It was very successful in that period, due to its low price (thanks to the inexpensive 6502 microprocessor) and easy-access expandability. - Wikipedia

Discovered this very early historic home computer from my morning music "On the Other Ocean the debut studio album by American composer David Behrman,.. Considered a pioneering work of computer music, the album pairs electronics controlled by a KIM-1 computer with live players."

Predictably and wonderfully, we can build one ourselves.

http://www.6502.org/trainers/buildkim/buildkim.htm

#KIM1 #Microprocessor #SingleBoardComputer #HistoryofComputing #DavidBehrman #DIYComputers #6502 #MOSTechnology6502

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after my swim with On the Other Ocean the debut studio album by American composer David Behrman, released in 1978 by Lovely Music.

Andy Beta of Pitchfork wrote for the best ambient LPs of all time placing it at 29:

"...New music composer David Behrman’s debut, On the Other Ocean, is a riposte on how humans and computers can interface and interact to make a warm, heavenly sound. It marks Behrman’s first interactive piece between man, woman, and machine; flautist Maggi Payne and bassoonist Arthur Stidfole flutter and slowly move between a series of six pitches, which in turn trigger Behrman’s KIM-1..., which reacts and pitch shifts these pure tones so as to harmonize with its human counterparts...The results couldn’t be more transportive and lovely; time melts away as soloists and microcomputer move at an unhurried pace, reveling in the resultant honeyed tones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3nG9BbzH3I&list=RDD3nG9BbzH3I&start_radio=1

#DavidBehrman #Ambient #Music #KIM1

Also, the VirtualKim KIM-1/Apple-I emulator on iPad, has an update with a much more usable assembler mode!

"I for one will not stand for such modernity! Software must be punched in on a front panel or nothin'! Lazy kids these days!"

I'm gonna have to sit down with this and do some real coding.
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