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KIM 6530 replacement board

Christer from Sweden built an Eduardo Casino designed KIM-1 replica. And as we know, the 6530 replacement is an issue.
Not only for replica’s also for broken original KIM-1s.

So he designed his own, more compact original looking adapter.
He created this adapter because he wanted something that would work and look a little more unobtrusive than the other adapter boards that are available but still look somewhat genuine (no FPGA). The design is inspired by the Corsham 6530 replacement board but made way smaller by using SMD components and stacking the 6532 on top of the adapter board.

A newer design promised to be much more compact.

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Allied Leisure pinball machines

6530 Replacement
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Replaces the 6530 ICs found on early revision Allied Leisure pinball machines.

On this github all information in open source format can be found to replace 6530’s in Allied Leisure pinball machines.

The ROMS are available here.

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6530 replacement with a 6532

The 6530 and 6532 are very close in functionality.
Nearly the same timer, 2 8 bit I/O ports, RAM.
With an external ROM and some clever addressing logic many 6530’s have been replaced with a 6532.

Here some examples:

Design by Dwight Elvey

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Backbit Chip Tester Pro for 6530 tests

Besides connecting a 6530 to a 6502 system, as is described in the other pages, a simple and effective test and ROM dump can be done with the wonderful Backbit Chiptester Pro V2.

This device van help detect problems with a large number of older ICs. And dump the contents of ROMs Especially the 65XX tests and ROM dumping have served me very well, e.g. the KIM-5 ROMs 6540 were read out with this device.

It can also check the 6530 RRIOT. My collection of 6530s has the KIM -002 and -003 and those tested fine. Initially the other 6530s tested with problems at Port 2 (the PB0-7 I/O pins).
Now port 2 is special since the mask programming allows to choose between CS1 and CS2 or PB5 and PB6.
The support of the Chiptester Pro is excellent and after some discussions with version CTPro-5.0.5 all 6530’s test fine. Alas the ceramic 6530-002 4576 has a defective ROM.

I have tested the following 6530’s

– 2x MOS MPS6530 002 0880 4576
– 1x MOS MPS 6530-003 0680
– 1MOS 6530-004 2576 and 5x SY6530-004 7935D
– 2x MOS 6530-005 3676 2876 and 1x R6530-005P 8114
– 1xR6530P 3004 -11 7925
– 3x MOS MPS6530 024 2081

and all ROM dumps were fine, confirming the ROM dumps I have were indeed he correct ROM dumps.

Log of 6530-005
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MOS/CSG Specific
6530 RRIOT
—————-
FAIL#1: ROM
PASS#1: RAM
PASS#2: PORT1
PASS#3: PORT2
PASS#4: TIMER

Log of a good 6530

—————-
MOS/CSG Specific
6530 RRIOT
—————-
Saved to RIP0001.bin
SAVED TO 0001
PASS#1: RAM
PASS#2: PORT1
PASS#3: PORT2
PASS#4: TIMER
PASS#5: ROM

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Use a KIM-1 (clone) to read out a 6530-009

Dave McMurtrie (Commodore History) has published a video showing how he dumped the ROM image of a 6530-009 (used in Applied Leisure devices)

By using the breadboard extension and the Corsham Clone 5 he wired the 6530-009 into the memory of the 6502, by interpreting the (general) 6530 datasheet as shown in the next screenshots.

The resulting dump of the ROM is identical to the 6530-009 of the Allied Leisure

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Testing the 6530

A 6530 IC is to be used in a 6502 computer as standard 65XX peripheral.
Two of the tests on the next pages are breadboard tests on a KIM-1 (clone)>
The first test is the simplest and fastest: the excellent Backbit Chip Tester Pro for a test and ROM dumps

Testing my 6530 collection

I have a small collection of the MOS 6530 RRIOTs as made by MOS Technology.
Mask programmed, ROM and also ports can be used as chip select. See the 6530 pages!

I have tested my 6530s with the excellent Backbit Chiptester Pro V2.

6530-002 black all tests passed and ROM dumped OK, confirmed to be the 002 ROM, main KIM-1
6530-002 ceramic all tests passed, ROM test fails
6530-003 black all tests passed and ROM dumped OK, confirmed to be the 003 ROM, audio cassette KIM-1
4x 6530-004 all tests passed, except the PORT B and no ROM dumped, TIM
3x 6530-005 all tests passed, except the PORT B and the ROM (which is to be expected, the 005 has no ROM)
2x R6530P/R3004-11 all tests passed, except the PORT B and no ROM dumped, pinball
2x 6530-24 all tests passed a except the PORT B and no ROM dumped, Commodore diskdrives

I also tested a 6530 replacement, built with a 6532 and some glue logic and an EEPROM, both 002 and 003 variants tested OK.

SO I suppose all these 6530’s except the ceramic 6530-002 are all right. The Port B test fails, since the 6530-002 and 6530-002 use pin PB6 for a chip select and the others may have this as I/O pin. Now waiting for an answer of the Backbit Chiptester Pro to my query about Port 2 testing.

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KIM-1 revisions, what changed?

I know of seven KIM-1 revisions, labeled Rev A-G and the first one unlabeled. Rev C is unknown!

What changed between these revisions?

Not much. The PCB underwent several changes around the logo area, from KIM-1 MOS to Commodore C-MOS. That happened from Rev A to Rev D, indicating the takeover by Commodore of MOS Technology. And some small numbers/artefacts etched in various Revs.

Some have serial numbers, the first ones on the back on the right, later had stamped/written numbers like PAxxx (Palo Alto) and SCxxx (Santa Clara) of Commodore production facilities

There was a change in the PCB from Rev A to B.

Rev A

Rev B

Another change appeared going from Rev B to Rev D. The keyboard changed, the SST switch moved to the other side. And there were some extra holes required for the new keybaord, some traces needed to move also.

Rev A front keyboard


Rev A back keyboard


Rev D front keyboard


Rev A back keyboard


The User Manual went from version 15 (January 1976) to 15A (March 1976) to 15B (August 1976) without significant changes, mostly typing errors and the change of keyboard from Rev B to Rev D.
The keyboard changed from rev B to Rev D. The SST switch moved to the other side, the first Rev keyboards were not very reliable.

Rev B

Rev D

What did not change?

The 6530 – 002 and -003 were from many different dates between 1976 and 1980. The functionality stayed the same, no software changes are known. It seems the same mask was used to produce another batch due to the demand for KIM-1s. On Rev F and G I have seen older 6530s (ceramic ones) from much earlies dates, old stock being used?

The large Circuit Diagram poster stayed the same for all revisions as far as the circuit itself. Colors changed to only blue background in the last revisions.

Parts used

The parts used in all these revisions changed from as much as possible made by MOS Technology (6102) to industry standard compatible types (2102). E.g the RAM ICs were all third party in later revisions.
The capacitors, mostly yellow tube types, also came in various colors and sources between revisions.

Except for Rev G no IC sockets were used.

6530 replacement board

Christer from Sweden built an Eduardo Casino designed KIM-1 replica. And as we know, the 6530 replacement is an issue.
Not only for replica’s also for broken original KIM-1s.

So he designed his own, more compact original looking adapter.
He created this adapter because he wanted something that would work and look a little more unobtrusive than the other adapter boards that are available but still look somewhat genuine (no FPGA). The design is inspired by the Corsham 6530 replacement board but made way smaller by using SMD components and stacking the 6532 on top of the adapter board.

A newer design promised to be much more compact.

KIM or KIM-1 which is what?

MOS Technology started development of the 6530 RRIOT very early after/during the 6501/2 development. All in 1975.

The first version of the Hardware Manual has this mention of KIM and TIM:

The KIM and TIM were mentioned as Keyboard and Teletype Input Monitor, indicating these are the 6530-002 and 6530-004 RRIOT IC’s. Indeed these ICs were sold later on.

The KIM-1 computer was developed later, with the KIM RRIOT and the 6530-003 audio cassette interfacing ROM using the KIM 6530-002 RAM and I/O ports.
The KIM-1 was not called -1 as first version, but for the 1K RAM included on the computer.
First shipping of the KIM-1 started in early 1976, then the first articles in the magazines and advertisements appeared.

So KIM is the 6530-002 RRIOT IC, KIM-1 is the computer around the KIM and 6530-003.