18 May
2012
18 May
'12
1:25 p.m.
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Brent Hilpert wrote:
No, it wasn't much to build a system around, but
was it any worse
than any other evaluation board / educational SBC, such as the COSMAC
Elf, MEK6800, etc.?
(Arguably, the Apple I was 'more' as it had BASIC present.)
QWERTY keyboard and video helped.
Lawrence Hall of Science (UC-based science museum) had a couple of classes
using them. I never got to take those, but I built their classroom
machine - took a picture of a KIM-1, enlarged it and mounted it to a
board, with a real KIM-1 on the back, and wired a lot of LEDs into the
locations of the pictures of the 7-segment displays. We also cobbled
together a bunch of power supplies for them.