KIM-1 Microcomputer Module
date: label: date made
content: ca 1976
notes: label: Description
content: This green plastic circuit board (or Keyboard Input Monitor) has installed on it the components of a very simple microcomputer. These include a MPS6502 microprocessor, two MPS6530 peripheral/interface memory devices, a keyboard and LED display not unlike those on an electronic calculator, and a variety of other components. There is no case.
label: Description
content: The board was a product of MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Technology of Pennsylvania, a firm founded in 1969 that was associated with Allen-Bradley, then Commodore Business Machines, and finally operated as GMT Electronics until its closing in 2001.
label: Description
content: For documentation, see 1985.0591.06, 1985.0591.07. and 1985.0591.08. Compare 1991.0591.03 and 1991.0891.20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Louis Mittelman, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0591.03
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0591.03
label: accession number
content: 1985.0591
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 21 cm x 27.5 cm; 19/32 in x 8 9/32 in x 10 13/16 in