SYM-1 and SYM-2 updates

Paul Schroeter gave me the dump of the SYM-2 ROM and photos of the backside.


More about the SYM-1 and SYM-2 on the Synertek pages

Sources of SYM-1 and SYM-2 Monitor ROMs

Many years ago Paul R.Santa-Maria (who sadly left us in 2012) gave me the listing of the source of the Monitor ROM in the SYM-1 1.1
Delivered as a listing, with the comments from the listing in the SYM-1 Reference manual and formatted close to the printed listing.

This is the heading of the listing:

SYM-1 SUPERMON AND AUDIO CASSETTE INTERFACE SOURCES
COMBINED AND CONVERTED TO TELEMARK ASSEMBLER (TASM) V3.1

0002 0000 ;
0003 0000 ;*****
0004 0000 ;***** COPYRIGHT 1979 SYNERTEK SYSTEMS CORPORATION
0005 0000 ;***** VERSION 2 4/13/79 “SY1.1”

Since the ROM of the SYM-1 1.0, 1.1 and the ROM of the SYM-2 2.0 are available:

  • Converted the listing back to source format (TASM32, standard MOS format).
  • Created separate source for the SYM-1 1.0 ROM, the SYM-1 1.1 ROM (the original listing) and the SYM-2 ROM.
  • Typed in the audio cassette interface sources from the 1.0 reference manual.
  • Changed the SYM-2 source to the different hardware (a 6532 at AC00 instead of a VIA) and other (minor) changes.
  • Binary output compared to the original ROM dumps as proof the sources match the dumps.

In this archive sources of 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 listings, binary output.

Another KIM-5 located!

I have found a second KIM-5, also in Germany of the KIM-5.

Photos of a KIM-5 board with the Resident Assembler/Editor 6540 ROMs in a KIM-4 motherboard. Photos from the TECMUMAS, dem Technikmuseum (Matthias Schmitt)

More about the KIM-5 here.

Siemens Personal Computer PC 100 Bedienungsanleitung, Ausgabe 1981/1982

A contribution by Michael Steil of the scan of ‘Siemens Personal Computer PC 100 Bedienungsanleitung, Ausgabe 1981/1982’

The Siemens PC 100 was a version of the 6502-based “AIM-65” SBC in a case and with slightly modified ROMs. Siemens offered a set of German-language manuals, which included translated Assembler (MOS Resident Assembler) and BASIC (Microsoft BASIC) manuals, but also a general manual (“Bedienungsanleitung”).

See the PC100 page for more information like manuals and ROM dumps.

Siemens Personal Computer PC 100 Bedienungsanleitung,
Ausgabe 1981/1982

MTU Micro Technology Unlimited pages updated

The MTU pages have been updated.
– New are 8 documents on the MT-130 page, like DISKEX (file exchange with e.g. CP/M), Wordpic, Forth 79, later version of the Full Screen editor.
– The K-1013 Dual density floppy controller has its own page now, with new information
– The MT-130 is emulated on Mame
– MTU K-1000 power unit photos
– the MTU projects by Eduardo Casino

Not yet added are the results of the ongoing discussions on the threads on forum64.de, like multipage K-1008 displays, K-1013 replica builds, CODOS V1 and V2 dissecting.

K-1008, photo by John Lucas

EMUF M50734

Thanks to F.J.Kamerewerd, DL6OE, I have a photo of a EMUF 65XX with a very special CPU, the Mitsubishi M50734.
This CPU is from a family of 65C02 cores with enhancements.
Around this M50734 the EMUF M50734 is published in MC Magazine 11 1911.

See here for the information available.

TKChess Computerschaak Theo Kortekaas for the KIM-1

Theo Kortekaas, a member of the Dutch KIM User Club, published in the club magazine the KIM Kenner, Issue 11 and 20, a chess program for the standard unenhanced KIM-1.
The program files are from audio cassette digitized wave files from 1982. for keypad and LED display.

Usurpator II Chess for the 6502

Usurpator Chess for the 6800 and 6502, a book by H.G. Muller

A small but capable chess playing program. Source published in the book for AIM 65.Typed in again in March 2025 and adapted for the KIM-1.

Q-Chess 1.0

Q-Chess 1.0 is a chess program for the KIM-1, from around 1980. The programs requires memory expansion of 8K at $2000.
The chess board is displayed at a TVT-6 (Don Lancaster) video display alongside the KIM LED Display and Keypad.
In 1981 Fer Weber, a member of the Dutch KIM User Club published an adaptation to use the program with a (video)terminal attached to the KIM TTY interface in the Dutch magazine the KIM Kenner Issue 17.
Binaries on tape and the documentation of Q-Chess were acquired in 1981 from Fer.
In March 2025 Hans Otten translated the source of the adaptations from Dutch to English in TASM format.
This makes Q-Chess playable again!

KGN COMAL KIM-1 version

COMAL is an interpreted structured language. A version for the KIM-1, Junior and DIS65 is available, distributed by the KIM Gebruikers Club Nederland as KGN COMAL in the 80ties.
KIM-1 version March 2025 by Hans Otten.

KGN COMAL V1 for the KIM-1 and clones, Elektor Junior and DOS65.

A product distributed and adapted to the Junior by the KIM Gebruikers Club The Netherlands in 1985-1987.
KGN COMAL V1.0 is for the enhanced Elektor Junior.
KGN COMAL V2.1 is for the DOS65 system.

In 2015 I saved KGN COMAL 1.0 and 2.1 binaries from Junior tapes and DOS65 disks.
With DOS65 came a very compact COMAL user manual.
In the Club Magazine KIM Kenner a Amazing Maze program is found.

Based upon these binaries and documents KGN COMAL is adapted to the KIM-1.

MOS Technology documents added


A recently acquired KIM-1, of the first generation (that means, No Revision, the first series!) came with a stash of documents from MOS Technology from 1976.

I have scanned those documents and they are available on this website now.

KIM-1 User Manual First Edition, January 1976
KIM User Manual errata letters for First Edition
MOS Technology Floating point BCD routines
MOS Technology January 1976, Rev 0.
Numbers of six digits BCD Mantissa,
a two digit BCD Exponent and the signs for the mantissa
MCS6532 Design Specification
Published before the first 6532 datasheet
MCS6500 Microprocessor Software Support
Guide for using the MOS Technology Support Software on United Computing Systems timesharing service
Describes the MCS6500 Cross Assembler, Simulator and DMP to ROM programs.
MCS6500 datasheet May 1976
MDT 650 product description
MOS Technology newsletters
Simplifying Conversion from 6800 to 6502
TIM Software development Aid Product description
KIM 2-3-4-5 product descriptions

Warranty card that came with this KIM-1