KIM BUS -- coincidence?

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>> 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.


Nahh, it's completely physically different.  Good guess though,
it's about the right size and vintage!

KIM-1:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=149

What's all that discrete crap in the lower-left corner? Cassette?
Sheesh I never realized at the time how badly laid out the board
was :-) All that wasted real estate! Why no blank/prototype DIPs
in the upper right?

Anyways, the SLC-1 has two DB25's out back, a smallish card edge
for TTY, NiCds along one side (mine now remoted) and no keypad or
LED display.

Might have similar architecture I suppose.

Since the SLC-1 has (umm, *is*) a ROM debugger, it can hex-dump
itself trivially:

SLC> D0 FFFF

Displays in the customary manner. I suppose I should figure out
where the EPROM is in the address space and make a backup copy.