http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim-1-manuals-and-softwar...

https://groups.google.com/g/kim-1

The author of the robot book [1] had an unusual last name. When I came across the same last name during my time at Apple, a co-worker, I emailed him and he said that it was in fact his brother that had written the book. Small world, I guess.

[1] https://archive.org/details/howtobuildcomput0000loof

1. My 1976 KIM-1 https://blog.jgc.org/2023/11/my-1976-kim-1.html

2. Getting the KIM-1 to talk to my Mac https://blog.jgc.org/2025/02/getting-kim-1-to-talk-to-my-mac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYM-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9y_7it3ZM

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.

He wrote the “The First Book of KIM” and it kickstarted his career within the 6502/6510 microprocessor family namely Commodore.

He is such an awesome role model to this day in explaining complex concepts to the average people that made them hungry for more.

Search him on YouTube, you will want to start BASIC on C64 the moment you watch him unpacking a C64 and plugin it in to show how easy it is to write BASIC programs for fun.