{"id":125,"date":"2014-10-17T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:34:17","slug":"mos-technology-kim-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/mos-technology-kim-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MOS Technology KIM-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-kim1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" title=\"MOS Technology KIM-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-kim1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1976, the MOS Technology KIM-1 (KIM being short for <strong>K<\/strong>eyboard <strong>I<\/strong>nput <strong>M<\/strong>onitor), was a small 6502-based single-board computer. MOS Technology was a semiconductor designer and manufacturer based in Norristown, Pennsylvania. It is most famous for the 6502 microprocessor. In late 1976, Commodore Business Machines (CBM) acquired MOS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chuck Peddle, leader of the 650x group at MOS designed the KIM-1 and it was created primarily to &#8220;show off&#8221; the 6502 chip to engineers. However, it also quickly found a large market with hobbyists. You could create a complete system for less than $500, after buying the kit for only $245, by adding a used terminal and a cassette tape drive.<\/p>\n<p>The KIM-1 contained a 1MHz 6502, 1024 bytes of RAM, six digit LED display and a 24-key calculator style keypad. At Commodore, Chuck Peddle convinced the owner, Jack Tramiel, that calculators were a dead end, and that the future was in personal computers. The KIM-1 lead to the Commodore PET 2001 in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Several external sources of information about the KIM-1 can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KIM-1\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KIM-1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/kim1.html\">http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/kim1.html<\/a><br \/>\nRare Commodore KIM-1 hits eBay, shows you the PET&#8217;s barebones roots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floodgap.com\/retrobits\/kim-1\/emu.html\">http:\/\/www.floodgap.com\/retrobits\/kim-1\/emu.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brielcomputers.com\/wordpress\/?cat=24\">Briel Computers micro-KIM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 1976, the MOS Technology KIM-1 (KIM being short for Keyboard Input Monitor), was a small 6502-based single-board computer. MOS Technology was a semiconductor designer and manufacturer based in Norristown, Pennsylvania. It is most famous for the 6502 microprocessor. In late 1976, Commodore Business Machines (CBM) acquired MOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,46,18,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historyofpersonalcomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}