About 99% of this is over my head, yet I find it absolutely fascinating, and can't wait for more!
@thefixerofbrokenstuff2 жыл бұрын
Same here. If he was speaking in Koine Greek I wouldn't understand less.
@thumbwarriordx2 жыл бұрын
It's sinking in somewhere. Someday you might be doing some arduino crap and it'll all come together in your head lol
@elektrolyte2 жыл бұрын
whaaaaa COOL!!
@ciscornBIG2 жыл бұрын
Ah. The eternal "I am le dumb" comment. Why are you even watching this?
@throwaway6288 Жыл бұрын
Ah. The eternal “I am le autist” comment on KZbin. Why are you even interacting with people? Shouldn’t you be locked up somewhere?
@RandomInsano22 жыл бұрын
Definitely liking the hardware deep dives into the peripheral chips. Interesting to see the deep levels of integration they were able to do and writing small device drivers is one of my favourite things.
@joebates865911 ай бұрын
Too bad you don't work for HP their drivers are so bloated!
@Nets-nutsBr Жыл бұрын
Nowadays few people know this. I really appreciate you sharing that vintage architecture. It is a very important video.
@amartini512 жыл бұрын
Another reason for Baudot code to use inverse frequency order is how it was originally input: an operator manually entered each character by pressing (or not pressing) keys on a five-key keyboard, 2 keys under the left hand and 3 under the right. This bit arrangement meant that the most common characters needed the fewest keys pressed to type them.
@jhoughjr12 жыл бұрын
wasnt even morse code intended to work that way?
@paulstubbs76782 жыл бұрын
Wow, that would have been painful, I only know back to the early Siemens 100 telex machines - hand coding baudo at any speed sounds like a real challenge, although if you were coming from Morse code, maybe not that hard
@jackever2 жыл бұрын
I had used a Bardot tty in the army, but the tty and paper tape in the video are. ASCII, 8 BIT as someone else noted. For a data acquisition system,I use a sphere 6800 based setup and loaded Microsoft 4K basic to it from paper tape. That took 45 minutes, I immediately saved it to 8 inch floppy disk 128 bye sectors.
@ramosel2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm running the hack to "return KZbin dislikes" Why would anyone (16 so far) dislike a video like this. No one makes you watch it. There are very few still capable of troubleshooting this old hardware, fewer still willing to. I just don't understand people. Thanks Dave, I know this isn't going to change the world, but it certainly is bringing back memories and showing just how bright the early developers were. I'll be here 'till the end.
@franklinhaut2 жыл бұрын
Definitely, all dislike of the video are wrong click on the Smartphone
@ah2448952 ай бұрын
I’ve disliked a couple of videos before, but it was accidental. Most likely that’s the primary reason for most of the dislikes.
@adamstrugatch29212 жыл бұрын
These KIM videos have been my favorite of all your videos to date. Tinkering on and investigating old equipment is very interesting.
@colday742 жыл бұрын
Loving this KIM1 series Dave. I'm fully liked and subscribed!
@michaelclift68492 жыл бұрын
I had a similar computer to the KIM-1 called a TEC-1. Hex keyboard & 7seg displays, only it was Z80 based. My dad had one of those teletypes and I used to save my assembler programs on it. This KIM-1 of yours is bringing back memories.
@TheBookDoctor2 жыл бұрын
The ETAOIN SHRDLU sequence, while indeed reflecting English letter frequency, comes from the keyboard arrangement on the old Linotype typesetting machines, which was also frequency-ordered I guess to help the machine operators set type faster.
@muf17722 жыл бұрын
There is a beautiful documentary from 1978 titled "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" on Vimeo that shows the final day of printing with the Linotype at the New York Times.
@markcummings1502 жыл бұрын
When I was younger (iBC.. Before Creation of the internet) I worked out my own version of this and remember mine as ETAONRISHDLUC and can’t recall the rest. I use it often in hangman game and it works well most of the time. It was based on the letter frequency of use from English (Australian or British) encyclopedias at the time. That sequence is somewhat dependent on what country and year it was based on. I’d imagine in the future it will be based on TLAs, L337 and SMS or internet jargon 😀
@bennydreamly2 жыл бұрын
cool!
@KeritechElectronics2 жыл бұрын
Indeed, and it's basically the equivalent of a modern "asdf". Back in the day, when you made a typesetting mistake, it would be easier and faster to cast the slug, throw it into the melting pot and re-type the phrase, so Linotype operators just marked their mistakes with a nonsensical bunch of characters.
@AdrianMars2 жыл бұрын
Like you it was the first computer I ever got my hands on, also at school, in the UK. We though didn't have a fancy pants teletype terminal. everything was input on the hex keypad and output on the 7-segment based display. Programs were (unreliably) stored on audio tape. Thanks so much, I’m filled with nostalgia. It, and the ZX81 changed my life.
@randallgreen40842 жыл бұрын
I do enjoy your videos, keep them coming. I started with a card punch, card sorter, and card reader, with overnight scheduling to run your code, and picking up your output the next day, because the University placed a premium on the use of teletypes to where the students in general could not afford to use them. If I remember right, they had a Burroughs system. Sadly, I had to throw out my paper tape, cards, and the like about 15 years ago in a move. The oldest stuff I got left is a couple of Osbornes (off white/blue edition), with 5 1/4 floppies of some programs and CPM OS. At this point I don't know if any of it still works as floppy disks lose their magnetism over time, but hey, it's cool to have.
@r3jjs2 жыл бұрын
For the KIM-1 Microsoft BASIC, you are better off just hitting 'ENTER' at the memory size prompt. It will start and the end of BASIC and probe its way upward until it runs into non-RAM. You can PRINT FRE(0) to see the amount of free space that is available. The only reason you'd want to manually enter a value is if you have code loaded in high upper RAM that you want to make sure BASIC doesn't clobber, but I'd imagine any such RAM wold go in the lower 5K RAM space of the KIM-1.
@garygough69052 жыл бұрын
Has me thinking about digging out my old KIM and seeing if it still works. Then again the SuperPet is gathering dust too.
@DavesGarage2 жыл бұрын
Hold on now. This isn't Gary Gough of Regina is it? If so, please tell you have a PDP-11 somewhere still...
@garygough69052 жыл бұрын
@@DavesGarage looked, saw at least an 11/04 in the inventory.
@forbiddenera2 жыл бұрын
🇨🇦!
@garygough69052 жыл бұрын
It appears that I have transgressed the unwritten law ( in KZbin) tried posting some information on where a few tons of DEC equipment went. Messages post then vanish. Oh well .
@garygough69052 жыл бұрын
@@DavesGarage I am indeed myself, actually in Regina right now.
@MichaelDoornbos2 жыл бұрын
Might be he most concise explanation of how ICs are memory mapped I’ve ever seen. Excellent work.
@bme7491 Жыл бұрын
Brings back memories. I not only programmed through the ASR-33, but did the maintenance on it, the SEL mainframe to which it was attached and all the associated peripherals (magnetic tape drives, 10MB disk drives, 132 column line printer etc.) back in the mid 70's. This all while in the military. The training and experience I got allowed me later to have a long career in aerospace.
@Parax772 жыл бұрын
Just gave Inverse frequency a few minutes and came up with the following list - Fewer Holes means: Stronger Tapes Faster Printing 1) Based on original manual keying method Faster Printing 2) Better waste management with fewer 'dots' to exhaust (less manual emptying) Faster Printing 3) Better Temperature management on punch solenoids Fewer write errors (miss-punched - based on a fixed error rate) Fewer read errors (obscured holes - based on a fixed error rate) Better Longevity on write punch equipment.
@Rybagz2 жыл бұрын
KIM-1 used the 6530 RIOT which is a Ram/Rom Input/Output-Timer variant. Atari used by far the most 6532s - probably 30-35 million in 2600s and another few million in 8-bit peripherals.
@Dbumbaca12 жыл бұрын
ironic that Atari had to buy all those chips from commodore after commodore bought MOS.
@markhindsbo78762 жыл бұрын
I never got serial to work on my KIM-1 using the same Corsham board. I never thought to check if my KIM-1 was modified... I certainly will now! Thanks for the inspiration and great videos
@JamieStuff2 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy the deep dives into this old stuff. As a kid, I remember drooling over the likes of SWTPC, IMSAI, and Vector Graphics, and literally wearing out the Heathkit catalog. I got my BSEE, specializing in digital design. I love these old systems; they are simple enough for someone to understand what's going on.
@jeffreyplum52592 жыл бұрын
I was taught basic on a Teletype ASR 33 attached to a Wang minicomputer. Paper tape was out "mass storage" It was upper case only. It is said some of Unix /Linux's cryptic commands come from avoiding typing much on the Teletype terminals. They had a very heavy keystroke. Pie plates were used to store our coils of paper tape. With the source , basic can be extended freely. Well within the limits of your Ram and rom. I have an Aim 65 . It is essentially, the keyboard extension of the kim. a 20 character display and adding machine like printer are its terminal. It will be great to see more of this historic machine.
@muzykbb1 Жыл бұрын
I was sceptical towards your Channel for too long, Dave. Great work. I'm so gonna use your videos to teach my daughter IT for her GCSE- big thanks. IT Legend
@robgreenhill5990 Жыл бұрын
My final year university project used a SYM-1 (the UK version of the KIM-1) to control a 'robot' chassis - two windscreen wiper motors for movement, ultrasonic and bumper collision detection, hand made encoders for speed and position calculation and all the code was hand assembled and entered via the hex keypad
@aaronmarler3607 Жыл бұрын
You have connected so many concepts in my mind. Genuinely, thank you for your work and sharing it with us.
@ericsankey57562 жыл бұрын
I have always been interested in early computers like the KIM 1 and this was a great explanation! I used to hate math growing up, but since learning about computers and how binary works, I am so fascinated by it. Thanks Dave, great information.
@jackpatteeuw92442 жыл бұрын
Very early computer actually did NOT use binary math ! Well into the 1960s, they used Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) for arithmetic operation. 4 bit could encode all digits from 0-9.
@JamieKitchens6 Жыл бұрын
Your computer history videos are so interesting. That's why I keep coming back to your channel and also why you are my favorite KZbinr. Keep up the good work, Dave!
@fattomandeibu2 жыл бұрын
The teletype makes me think of Saturday afternoons watching the live football scores go past on TV. The screen would be split in 2, and the bottom part(about 1/5th of the screen) would be taken up with a camera pointing at a teletype that would give a printout of the updated score, time of goal and name of the player who scored every time a goal was scored, as well as half time and full time scores. This still goes on this day using digital means on BBC1, but they still pipe in the teletype sounds. Keep in mind for this, there's a TV blackout on football between 3-5pm on Saturdays here. The talk about the RIOT chip makes me think of a C64 tape game that said it used more memory than normally available because it would turn off I/O lines the game didn't need to gain a bit of RAM back without bank switching. I assume that this is related to how the RIOT(or CIA in this case) is mapped into the memory addresses. I still have that game on tape, but I can't play it without using an emulator because I lost the copy protection booklet.
@pugnate6662 жыл бұрын
3:20 "fewer holes are better" without knowing the construction, I'd assume that every paper chip has a chance to go somewhere it shouldn't. So fewer paper chips might also mean longer service intervals.
@jackpatteeuw92442 жыл бұрын
Originally, the ASR/KSR 33 Teletype 33 came with a 20 mA "current loop" serial interface. This allowed fairly long (100s of feet?) cables to be used to drive it. VT220 were actually the fourth generation of "glass teletype" from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The followed the VT05, the VT50/52 and the VT100 family.
@DeltaNrOne2 жыл бұрын
I am new to Ardino and i understood 70% if this. But its amazing to see this old hardware getting a new life by someone who is so passionate about it. I love the videos!
@JohnnieWalkerGreen2 жыл бұрын
I once have an MPF-1 (Micro Professor I, Z80) board.
@roeserr2 жыл бұрын
History of these machines is so fascinating. I grew up with a c64 and loved it. Kids today just can’t understand what it was like without these great videos you make.
@real_lostinthefogofwar2 жыл бұрын
I don't understand much about the inner workings of a computer, But I always feel like I understand a tiny bit more after watching you
@skfalpink1232 жыл бұрын
Happy days at college, programming my BBC Micro's PIO User Port at address &FE60, with the Data Direction Register (DDR) at &FE62 - and all in 6502 assembler. Thirty-five years later, and I can still hook up my old college project (a simple spoken command interpreter), to that same BBC Micro, loading the code from the same floppies - and everything still works like a dream.
@roelbrook75592 жыл бұрын
This is really cool. I'm getting a lot of flashbacks to Ben Eaters breadboard computer. It looks like the KIM was using very similar logic with it's addressing.
@brucewilliams62922 жыл бұрын
This is pretty cool. I like the deep delve into the history of computing.
@ronboe63252 жыл бұрын
We used a KIM-1 for the Modern Physics lab. Programs were stored on cassette tape (on a Radio Shack player). I remember copying the program and typing it into the KIM-1, messing up and having to start over (because it couldn't read the program last stored on the tape- gah!).
@TroySchrapel2 жыл бұрын
Loving the KIM-1 stuff, Dave. Looking forward to the next one.
@Norman_Fleming2 жыл бұрын
Hardware level videos are always enjoyable.
@mickholling68192 жыл бұрын
Absolutely do like. I saw my 1st and only KIM-1 strapped to the top of a educational robot in tech college many years ago.
@DougDingus2 жыл бұрын
This is where the real magic lives! I learned about these chips with Atari and Apple computers. I love this stuff and it has come in handy many times fixing things. Older industrial gear remains useful and these topics speaks to what one needs to fix and use that gear. Too much fun Dave!
@bobgroves57772 жыл бұрын
If Dave Plummer had worked at NASA, he'd be known as "a steely-eyed missile man".
@JohnScherer2 жыл бұрын
Love it Dave. I so wanted a KIM-1 back in the late 70’s. I had to settle for a COSMAC Elf with an RCA 1802 cpu. Keep these videos coming!
@wayland71502 жыл бұрын
My stepfather bought some RCA single board computer with a calculator type terminal on the end of a thick ribbon cable. It had prototyping PCB space and LEDs. We did put a program in it to add 2 + 2 but after that we could not see what the point of the thing was. It was not until he bought a proper desktop computer Superbrain Z80 with integrated screen, keyboard and floppy drives that I was able to figure out what a computer was and what it could do. That RCA thing was just too obscure to get my head round.
@richardcarpenter61672 жыл бұрын
Ah brings back memories of converting a KSR 33 with dial-up modem to current loop used by all the SEL computers we were running back in the day. The interesting things you find out they did to make one system work and then backing those changes out.
@bikefarmtaiwan18002 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Like a fire hose if information. You must have been so pumped when that transistor worked ! Congratulations .
@morganskinner38632 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave, keep it up. This pre-dates my computer usage by 3 years, but it’s super interesting!
@mawizard63412 жыл бұрын
This series is very interesting to me. I was born in 78 but I remember the TRS80 era machines. It's amazing what humanity had to go through to get to super computers in our pockets
@AiOinc12 жыл бұрын
Same chip MOS marketed to Atari for use in their 2600 console back in the day, though they only used one. It's one of 3 major parts along with a watered down 6502 (6507) which is actually the smallest package of the three. Interesting! Oh, and I would say "First" but this project deserves more respect than that.
@talideon2 жыл бұрын
Not so much a "watered down 6502", but a 6502 with a reduced pin count. It turns out that external pins were a major source of the cost of ICs back in the day. Internally, a 6507 is a 6502. Incidentally, this is also why Mostek ended up dominating the DRAM market: multiplexing helped reduce pin count, and thus costs and board sizes, because you had to route fewer traces, so the extra logic to support multiplexing made sense.
@osgrov2 жыл бұрын
Loving these KIM videos, please continue exploring! :) This is such rare hardware these days, most people will never see a KIM in real life, much less be able to play with one. Given the tremendous importance of the 6502 chip, and seeing this is how it all began, I consider this important history and treasure every video I get.
@DougDingus2 жыл бұрын
There are kits!
@FerdinandZanda2 жыл бұрын
Great video! In middle technical school in the 90’s we were taught about the 8086 and chips surrounding It. But It took them forever to explain what you just did in minutes. Of course you’ll need to know stuff to understand other stuff and I probably didn’t know enough back then. Most certainly i’ll enjoy a deeper dive.
@tykruszka2 жыл бұрын
I watch this channel every day even though I understand like 1 out of 10 concepts
@ae1tpa92gwtom22 жыл бұрын
Awsome Dave, really takes me bk, cheers, n enjoying!!!
@cdnsoul5808 Жыл бұрын
We used paper tapes on our high speed IBM printers back in the early 70s, hooked up to a 1401 (1) and the 360-160 (3)
@ЛюбомирРусев-ф6в Жыл бұрын
Baudot code is a perfect example of variable length encoding, allowing for efficient serial transmission / increasing transfer speed of English language-specific content. Another example of the variable length encoding is Morse code.
@johnabbott90732 жыл бұрын
Interesting factoid: etaoin shrill we’re the first two columns on a Lino-Type machine, and we’re used to flag a slug with errors.
@bertnijhof54132 жыл бұрын
The ASR33 teletype reader (110 bps) was not much faster than typing :) I used it in the early seventies to develop device drivers for our OS, after half a year I switched to synchronous displays (24x80 chars) in a multi-drop configuration with say 12 displays sharing one 9600 bps line. The fun things was, that in my previous department I tested the prototypes of that data-communication hardware. Once there was a problem with the data communication in our computer center after a modification, so they did sent me downstairs to solve it. That was much faster than calling the official service organization, especially since ~12 displays were unusable.
@craigmcinnes12122 жыл бұрын
Dave, this video (and pretty much all of your others) is pure gold! You know your stuff sir :-)
@DavesGarage2 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks!
@mikemartinell2 жыл бұрын
Loving these deep dives. Thanks for sharing.
@noam652 жыл бұрын
Enjoy hearing about, yes. Enjoy doing... not so much. It reminds me of programming a PDP 7, which I was given brief opportunities in college lab to do.
@woodwaker1 Жыл бұрын
We had a number of Teletypes that we used to load programs into a DEC PDP-8. The tapes were fragile, especially when loaded contently. We ended up using Mylar tape for many of the programs. they were tough to punch, but survived
@dhpbear22 жыл бұрын
15:25 - Those 0.1 uF and 0.33 uF capacitors are HUGE!
@NeilRoy2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. I think the oldest machine I have fond memories of using was the TRS-80 model 2.
@wayland71502 жыл бұрын
I still have my Dragon 32 which is basically a TRS-80 Color Computer. 6809 CPU and 32k of RAM 16k ROM and 16k expansion ROM. I learned to program in Assembler on that.
@murbella72 жыл бұрын
Too many memories. I had a SCAMP before progressing to a OSI with three CPU's, 6502, 6800, Z80. A teletype was my printer.
@jamesross39392 жыл бұрын
I like this series a lot. I was 13 when the KIM-1 came out, but did not get interested in electronics until I was around 16-17 y/o. Then because I loved arcade games, I got interested in computers and bought a TRS-80 Color Computer w/ 4K RAM for $399 in late 1981 early 1982. Loved computers/electronics ever since and I became a programmer. Even though I never owned a KIM-1 I love learning about computers from this era -- including the SWTPC 6800, Altair and IMSAI computers. You should get those as well and do a series on them!! :) :) :) ...
@tylerellis45762 жыл бұрын
Yay, my day just got better!
@Dbumbaca12 жыл бұрын
excellent breakdown of the KIM's 6530s function and how memory is addressed on the KIM. I learned new things today, thanks. I would like to add that the extra 128 bytes of RAM was critically important to some programmers. A text adventure game for the bare KIM is Kim-Venture written by Bob Leedom in the 70's uses all of the 1152 bytes available minus six bytes. It was hand complied by the author and is a masterpiece of coding efficiency.
@DrewNorthup2 жыл бұрын
The joys of system programming. Keep it up!
@TheParagade Жыл бұрын
Kim One and the Riot Chips is such a good name for a math rock band
@robertleemeyer2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!! I can't wait for the next episode!
@SkyCharger0012 жыл бұрын
minor error: 1703 points to the RIOT chip's 4th byte, not the 3rd. (The addressing is zero-base, not one-base)
@mrt1r2 жыл бұрын
Commenting to drive engagement! I am loving this series, keep it up!
@annieworroll4373 Жыл бұрын
This is some useful knowledge for my recently completed RC2014(z80 solder yourself kit).
@oneeyedphotographer Жыл бұрын
The Intel 4004 is the first microprocessor, and did have I/O instructions. It too targetted calculators initially. In the real big computer world, the IBM System/360 (big) line had one I/O instruction, SIO - Start I/O. External hardware executed the channel (I/O) program. On the later System/370 line I got to use the operating systm macro instruction, EXCP, to write and execute my own channel programs.
@andrewhudson37232 жыл бұрын
Excellent overview of memory decoding, as many other things
@DanielMonteiroNit2 жыл бұрын
A small suggestion (for us, non-native speakers): please put the numbers on the screen. Understanding numbers always require some extra cycles of our CPUs
@BelieveTruthDisbelieveFallacy2 жыл бұрын
this is a comment to feed the algorithm, to help you have the desire to keep making videos on the KIM - you'll get at least one more "watch" :)
@HeavyD66002 жыл бұрын
Again, great video, Dave! Thanks!
@markpitts51942 жыл бұрын
In a world across the pond, we had the BBC micro. A 6502 at the heart and a pair of 6522 VIAs (from memory (there is a joke there (see my self out))). One VIA did 'user port' and the other did 'printer'. Truth was you could mess with either. I seem to remember that the DIY eprom programmer from BeeBug magazine(?) used both ports for Address and Data busses and control. Anybody? I was ~15 and I'm 51 now.... and I've a beer since then.
@AndreiNeacsu2 жыл бұрын
There is interest. Thank you and glory to The Algorithm! May the interactions with your videos help spread the channel across KZbin!
@IEnjoyCreatingVideos2 жыл бұрын
Good video Dave! Thanks for sharing it with us!👍💖😎JP
@mark8792 жыл бұрын
First video for me. Loved it immensely! Subbed.
@CommodoreGreg2 жыл бұрын
Definitely interest in more of this series here.
@henrikstenlund53856 ай бұрын
I used this Teletype in 1974 and HP basic at the uiversity. That was exciting.
@pauldriscoll63192 жыл бұрын
sadly im old enough to remember kim, but my fav was a pet computer, learned machine code ,basic, and got the bug for programming from that day forward.
@williamshenk79402 жыл бұрын
pretty cool video!! Brings back memories from the day.
@nicwilson892 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh now this is cool. I can't resist old hardware!
@vhm14u2c2 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, and thanks for sharing your knowledge on these things, and detailed workarounds you done to get things working on KIM-1. Awesome stuff ;-)
@dcbcherrygate2 жыл бұрын
Wow - that brought back memories of some of my first college gear in the mid -late 80s. Teletypes, papertapes and having to set the memory map. ( that got me into 6502 assembly to get the hardware to read and control external electronics , which paid well for a while)
@RCBIGFLYER12 жыл бұрын
Hello Dave, I really like and enjoy your videos, and also your book about autism. I have never thought about it too much, but it is very interesting to read your very detailed description and explanition of your thoughts of autism, and how well you have analyzed your personal thoughts about it. I am a retired electrical engineer and learned to program when only Fortran was taught and Basic was brand new. we had to program Fortran on a coding sheet and then have it punched for input on paper tape or cards by the key-punch operater. Machine language was also around, of course, and Assembly. My interest was circuit design (TTL & analog), System design and RF fields and waves. I have built a lot of systems around DEC PDP/11s, VAX 780s, Data General and ModComp computers. I was also a HAM a long time ago, and one had to learn Morse code. I believe your questions about inverse character utilization and holes punched in paper tape relate back to sending code. It was important to send code at a high rate, and this was more quickly sent by the most- used characters being the shortest, i.e. the ' E ' and such. Maybe some others have mentioned this, but it seems so obvious to an old HAM! Congratulations on a great career, MS-DOS and Windows development and your many accomplishments with MicroSoft. It appears to me, that your eye-contact is perfect.! Keep Up the GOOD Work!
@Peter-House-Jr2 жыл бұрын
I miss the chairs for our little friends outro . . .
@stuart485811 ай бұрын
Dave,please keep your excellent videos coming. Stuart from Melbourne AU
@Murukku472 жыл бұрын
6502 stuff is just simple enough that understanding the steps in these videos isn't hard. Hope to see more KIM-1 stuff
@akelarsson33582 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave, educational and enjoyable as usual! I have a definitive memory of (seeing my dad…) being able to run communication with old VT 100 much faster than 4800 baud. Now feeling the urge to try to fire up the KIM-1 rev b that I have successfully hidden every time “someone”has wanted to rid the house from useless stuff (-:
@daveb4446 Жыл бұрын
Dave’s videos are like that scene from the matrix where they just pump information directly into Neo’s brain. “I know Kung Fu”
@bblevins2 жыл бұрын
Love these videos Dave. Maybe progress from the Kim1 to the PET, c64, c128 and Amiga, showing how chips improved with each generation. That would be fun.
@viperjay12 жыл бұрын
Was anyone else distracted by the cool tire table like I was?
@skygh2 жыл бұрын
I wrote Basic programs on teletype machines cradle modem connected to the main frame and saving them on paper tape back in college, oh, a few years ago
@viclotorto94882 жыл бұрын
Aha …. This video is a perfect example of what my digita1 Fonts controllers were doing … aka Teletype font ⚛️⏰✅🔑 TTY font used with teleport , telephony and teleprompt FONTS. Like a calculator the fonts could be used to compress and/or encrypt data . It’s great to see the hardware of how all this is strung together. Like Mp3 .wav
@inafusabi2 жыл бұрын
Love this series. Love the fact you played with sexy Amiga's. I have worked with A500 & A4000T, still have a running A1200
@davidwilson35242 жыл бұрын
See if you can type MEMORY SIZE? A - In my old OSI C1P it said "WRITTEN BY RICHARD W. WEILAND."
@dyson94222 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of a motherboard I designed in the late 1970s during my senior year of college. It was built as an energy management system for the Department of Energy on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The Intel CPU chip had IO to sense and switch loads and access memory. It could do both just not at the same time. The initial plan was to switch between these functions with code. When that plan failed, Intel sold us the same CPU with an EPROM on the top of the package. It took less than six months to go from my assignment to the product.