The SYM-1 is similar to the KIM-1, but they're very different visually. Bill's "Rockwell" version KIM-1 is actually a KIM-1, not a SYM-1. -Dave On 9/18/22 22:44, Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Anything that was branded Rockwell, actually Synertek would be called Sym-1. And because I'm pretty good at R6502 programming I've been trying to find one for a while. I've also got the processors that would be considered spares for Atari home video games, so when I find the time for it, I've got an idea to assemble a system in a (wait for it!) S-100 bus configuration. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 9:31 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Here is what I mean by "Rockwell" https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=571 Yours don't look superficially like they're what I call Rockwell's, but FYI, what I have Bill
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 9:11 PM Jonathan Chapman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I finally herded together the extant pictures of the KIM-1s I've had in the past and did a writeup:
http://www.glitchwrks.com/2022/09/18/kim1-boards-past
TL;DR is that during college I found a KIM-1 in an employer's warehouse. Later, I found a box with five more! These were all Virginia Tech surplus, and one of them is likely the first KIM-1 used for classroom instruction there. I'd intended to sell some of them, since who needs six, right? Unfortunately, I was forced to sell all of them, including the one I'd intended to keep for myself, due to economic/financial situations after graduation.
I've never seen anyone post about these particular machines, and I haven't seen them exhibited at VCF East, VCF Midwest, or HOPE. None of the sellers contacted me about them after the sale concluded. Is anyone here the owner of one of these particular KIM-1s? Do you know the owner? Did you use KIM-1s while at Virginia Tech? Please let me know!
Thanks, Jonathan
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA