From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> On 4/12/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote: > Being the 'root for the underdog' sort of person, I'd say 'Synertec rulez,

Well... since I _have_ a SYM-1, and had the books for it many, many years prior to locating the computer (like 20 years earlier), I'm pretty fond of the SYM-1. I also like the fact that the SYM-1 does _not_ use mask programmed parts (but the KIM-1 does). Other than that, they are really about the same machine. From a programming standpoint, I am unaware of any significant differences. I know they could share peripherals. Speaking of peripherals, I remember lots of ads back in the day, including one for an S-100 chassis for the SYM/KIM. I'd love to see schematics for that, especially since if I ever have one, I'll probably have to make my own rather than find one in the wild. I have a few S-100 cards now (something I didn't have back in my PET days), and it might be fun to do some driver coding for interesting things.

I _do_ have (somewhere) the stuff relevant to hooking Commodore IEC peripherals (1541, 1520, 1526...) to a SYM. That's another thing that would be fun to implement... disks and files on a 6502 SBC.

So many 6502 projects, so little time. -ethan