New KIM-1 programs ànd articles

[Hans Otten]

From 1977 to 1986 I was heavily involved in the Dutch magazine Radio Bulletin. The magazine started in the time of the then new radio long before I was born!

I started writing about my interest in electronic since 1970. And in 1977 the magazine (Dick de Boer!) introduced me to the KIM-1, and that enhanced my joy with electronics with computing.

At the university in these days electronics and computer science also came together.

We have published many articles around the KIM-1. Alas in Dutch and only on paper. Published on this website, [see the Radio Bulletin pages

http://retro.hansotten.nl/radiobulletin

Many of the articles deserve a wider public, the KIM-1 and its clones are used by a broad international public.

So I started a new project: translate the articles to English and make the software available in assembler and binary format.

Follow the progress here, articles already published are:

Radio Bulletin articles in English – Retro Computing

Mastermind on the KIM

Morse decoding with the KIM

Melodiant

Frequencymeter

EPROM Programmer

[Hans Otten]

Added one more today. Not from Radio Bulletin, but from Byte Book of Computer Music 1979: Teach KIM to SIng

Teach KIM to Sing – Retro Computing

[Kurt Pieper]

Hello, and thank you for the great work.
You have helped many users and retro-computing enthusiasts.
Over the years, I’ve noticed that fewer and fewer people know how to program a Z80 or 6502.
Many people collect them—which is fine, of course—
but what use is a computer to me if I can't program it?
My first 6800 was programmed in hexadecimal.
Keep up the good work and help ensure these computers aren't forgotten.

Thanks,
Regards,
Kurt

[Hans Otten]

The project to ocr and translate the relevant KIM-1 articles in the magazine Radio Bulletin has finished.
About 30 articles about hard- and software now accessible in English.

Radio Bulletin articles in English – Retro Computing

Hans