Briel Computers support forum

tranter wrote:My kit is now assembled and is up and running.

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I made a short unboxing video and will shortly have a video on the assembly:
http://youtu.be/XZxy78Q1kCM?list=UUBQDb ... 1gj6hyxACA

I watched the videos last night; well done both of them!

You might want to check out the forums at 6502.org as well - there's a lot of stuff about the 6502 in general, and there should be a few things there that could be turned into projects for your Micro-Kim.

The "8-bit baby" (http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/8BitBaby_e.htm) might be useable - it has a Vic-20 compatible connector, which appears to have the correct spacing (3.96 mm = 0.156*25.4 mm).

I'm not sure how easy this board is to obtain in the US.

I have a feeling that I'll order one of these as soon as they are available...

You probably don't want to use a 12V supply for extended periods of time... the 5V regulator may burn out if you're feeding it at a too high voltage.

Check out http://kbdbabel.org - they may have something that you could use (or start from).

I find it hard to believe that minicom lacks anything that HyperTerminal has

What exactly are you looking for?

From what I can see, the only difference is the assignment of address pins. Since this is a RAM chip, it does not in fact matter if these do not match the pinout of the original RAM chip. Note that it's actually the RAM chip that has a non-standard pinout; other 256kb RAM chips and EPROM chips I've ...

I would check whether the filename has between 1 and 8 legal characters (which does not include "."), possibly followed by ".bin". If there is an extension other than ".bin", complain. If there are more than 8 characters before the ".", complain. If there is n...

Got my kit in the post on Friday, spent a couple of days looking at it, then assembled it today. It's currently running the clock program from the manual :-) I also bought the RAM expansion, but haven't assembled it yet. I'm very happy with my new toy - it was a joy to build, thanks to the thoughtfu...