Key facts
- Information appliance.name
- KIM-1
- Information appliance.image
- MOS KIM-1 IMG 4211 cropped scale.jpg
- Information appliance.caption
- MOS KIM-1 computer. On display at the Musée Bolo, EPFL, Lausanne.
- Information appliance.developer
- Chuck Peddle
- Information appliance.manufacturer
- MOS Technology, Inc.
- Information appliance.type
- single-board computer
- Information appliance.cpu
- 6502
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thumb|right|KIM-1 computer in operation
The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, is a small 6502-based single-board computer developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc. and launched in 1976. It was very successful in that period, due to its low price (thanks to the inexpensive 6502 microprocessor) and easy-access expandability.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KIM-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.