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Comment by raphlinus

6 hours ago

I had one of these as a kid, actually on loan from another microcomputer enthusiast. My dad and I had soldered an SDK-85 kit (which I have) and we swapped that for the KIM-1 with another microcomputer enthusiast. It's the machine where I first started to learn programming, in machine code, entered in hex.

There's something really appealing about machines this simple which has been lost in the modern era. But this particular board was very limited, there wasn't a lot you could actually do with it.