KIM BUS -- coincidence?

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> With this old DG Nova came one SLC-1, aka "The Time Machine", by
> Digital Pathways. It's a beige box with LEDs on it, see
> wps.com/NOVA4/SLC-1.html
>
> It's basically a 6502, RAM, EPROM, etc and in the middle of the
> board is a connector the manual calls the KIM BUS, a dual-row, .1"
> spacing, 100? pin connector, that runs to the LED front panel.
>
> The vintage is about right; did the KIM-1 have such a bus? There's
> no other reason I can detect to put the letters "KIM" together in
> this manual...

Yes!  And I wouldn't be surprised if the board inside in fact *is* a
KIM-1.  I'll have to look at mine tonight.

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