18 May
2012
18 May
'12
10:55 a.m.
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 7:30 AM
Quoting
Readers, you now have 12 hours or so to bid for a
slice of computing
history: a Kim-1 single-board computer, released some 36 years ago by
the company that would become a key part of Commodore.
Well.
I remember the KIM-1 from the pages of _Popular Electronics_, and even
handled one in a class on computational linguistics (not yet called that)
with Victor Yngve at UChicago. Victor was the creator of a programming
language called COMIT, which he was still teaching in the 1970s long after
SNOBOL and even Icon had come along, but a heck of a nice guy.
I had no idea that they had anything to do with Commodore.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/