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Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1

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🎂 KIM-1 Demo Project

A small but heartfelt demo celebrating the 50th birthday of the legendary MOS KIM-1 🖥️✨

The KIM-1 first became available in January 1976 —

three months before the Apple I 🍎 and one month after its sibling, the TIM.

An incredible milestone in early microcomputer history!

For this demo, I’ve gathered and connected a few components that were scattered across my repositories 🧩.

The goal is not just to look back, but to celebrate, experiment, and build together.

I warmly invite fellow retro-computing enthusiasts and comrades-in-arms 🤝

to jump in, contribute ideas, add modules, demos, or improvements, and help this project grow.

Let’s keep the spirit of early computing alive 🚀

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