Description
The First Book of KIM - funny title, well! You will be amazed by the amount of info in this book if you own a historic KIM-1 microcomputer.
This book is hard to find. It explains and shows examples of programming the KIM-1 microcomputer.
The step by step guide will take you through the fundamentals of writing KIM programs. This guide includes dozens of examples of prorams tha re run on a basic KIM-1 system. These programs include games and puzzles such as Blackjack, Chess Clock, Horserace, Lunar Lander, Music Box, and Ping Pong which are fully described so that you can learn from the programming technigues illustrated as well as have fun playing the games.
The book also goes into detail on how you can expand your KIM from the small but powerful KIM-1 system to a huge and super powerful machine. They include diagnostic and utility programs to help you build extra devices onto your KIM system, such as teletype, display or more memory. The book also covers the jargon of KIM progrmming and what's available in both hardware and software for the KIM microprocessor.
The topics covered are:
- KIM progrmming
- Recreational Programs
- Diagnostic and Utility Programs
- Expanding your KIM - discussion of memory considerations, motherboards and busses, I/O expansion and Software
- Other interesting stuff like
Lighting the KIM-1 Display
Interval Timer
Random Number
Some history about the KIM-1 microcomputer:
The KIM-1 microcomputer was built by MOS Technology in 1976 and is a complete, self-contained computer including a small keyboard and six 7-segment character display units. It is built around the 6502 processor (also used in the Apple II), and has 1k of RAM, a TTY interface, an audio tape interface (for data storage) and an expansion connector (4k and 65k memory expansions were available).
The KIM-1 was a popular micro for a long time, both in hobbyist and professional circles. In many university laboratories, for instance, the KIM-1 was used for experiment control and data acquisition. Programming was done entirely in machine code.
Learn more about the programming the KIM-1 in this very RARE book.
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