50 years KIM-1 in January 2026

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Hans Otten

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Aug 17, 2025, 1:58:50 PMAug 17
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Our PAL-1 and PAL-2 are really KIM-1s!
n 1975 MOS Technology started delivery of 65XX ICs. So 2025 marks the 50 year anniversary of the 6502!
The earliest mentions of the KIM-1 are from January 1976. The date of the first edition of the User Manual, and first mentions in e.g. Byte.
So I propose to declare January 2026 as the 50th birthday of the KIM-1!

Neil Andretti

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Aug 18, 2025, 2:52:34 AMAug 18
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We should definitely program a short ASCII demo or something.  I created a MOS logo yesterday,  maybe we can put something together? 

GN Liu

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Aug 18, 2025, 8:50:59 PMAug 18
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Totally agree.

To me, the KIM-1 era is all about those blinking lights. I’m thinking of making an LED matrix (x * y) to show Nils’s ASCII art. Any other cool ideas?

Neil Andretti

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Aug 19, 2025, 8:17:30 AMAug 19
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 looks better in my terminal...

GN Liu

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Aug 29, 2025, 9:49:48 AMAug 29
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It's already really cool~~

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