About small SBC systems
I found new high quality scans of KIM-1 manuals on the Retro Commodore website.
That website is filled with high quality scans of Commodore publications.
High quality scans of the User, Programming, Hardware manuals. Also scans of KIM-5 related manuals like Assembler and Editor (a new one for me!).
The originals are from a German distributor, there is a sticker on the frontpage.
I thank Carsten Jensen for his invaluable work!
Manuals are added also to the KIM-1 manuals page, which did get a cleanup too. 
Cosmicos is the name for a SBC around the RCA 1802 CPU. Cosmicos stands for COSMAC MINI COMPUTERSYSTEM.
Published in the dutch magazine Radio Bulletin, developed by the editor (later editor in chief) Bob Stuurman.
The system is loosely based on the Cosmac ELF design. Compatibility with the ELF was later improved in the cassette routine loader, Tom Pittmann’s Tiny Basic and such.
Read all about the Cosmicos here.
H
I have acquired 3! Superjolts. With a Synertek Superjolt CP110 manual and Tiny Basic + RAP (assembler) in ROM.
A good opportunity to update the 6530 and the Jolt SuperJolt pages. Better quality and more documents, more photos, ROMs dumped.
New version of the KIM-1 Simulator. Now version 1.3.5. 3 oktober, and now 9 oktober 1.3.7!
– text file upload in console also accepts UNIX style line endings and DOS type
– Debugger more visible in main form, and new menu with Search, Fill, Move/copy in memory
– added PRG Commodore binary file load and save (for the IEC users!)
– debugged and tested the VT100 codes of the console
Added to the MTU pages:Patches to Microsoft Basic K-1008-2L sources and binaries, ready to run!
Added again some KIM-1 information!
Scans from the Commodore International Historical Society (Dave McMurtrie):
KIM-1 Schematic Poster alternative scan (Dave McMurtrie)
Johnson Computers and McShane brochures
MOS Newsletters and brochures
Microsoft Basic for KIM-1 alternative scan
KIM-1 ROMs source listing scan
KIM-1 DATA1-K assembler manual (incomplete)
KIM-1 Simulator 1.3.x adds the improvements from the 1.2.x branch to the V1.1.8 branch.
NEw improvements also: bundled with the also recently updated Convert 8 bit Hex formats program and the SST switch now turns on the built-in debugger!
1.3.1 Adds refresh of K-1008 memory with File/tapeload and debugger refresh.
1.3.2 Load C header image files into K-1008 video display, and command line utility to convert C header file to K-1008 binary
1.3.3 Adds a more realistic aspect ratio variant of the K-1008 display besides the simpler and therefore faster ones.
V 1.3.4 August 31 Read text file to console improved, improved K-1008 settings
Have fun with this release and as always: keep me posted of wishes and bugs.
You may ask, but this will never be more than a simulation and not a real KIM-1 emulator, many First Book of KIM programs that manipulate the LED displays will not work in this simulator architecture. TTY programs work well. Use the debugger!
The Convert 8bit hex formats utility has reached version 2.4.
Bugs fixed:
– one off papertape save fixed
– KIM tape format more robust
New save format: Define Byte. assembler formatted .byte $XY, prefix text user defined.
On his blog Nils has posted for download ‘The last book of KIM’:
Ich habe in letzter Zeit Energie in dieses kleine (auf Deutsch geschriebene) Heftchen gelegt.
Es ist allen Enthusiasten gewidmet, denen, die es werden wollen, und denjenigen, die es waren. Es soll einen in der Computerhistorie bislang unterrepräsentierten Mikrocomputer ins rechte Licht rücken und seine Rolle bei der Entwicklung hin zum modernen Heimcomputer beschreiben.
Viel Spass
Webdoktor
.