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Honey, somebody shrunk the Kenbak-1!

A project log for 2:5 Scale KENBAK-1 Personal Computer Reproduction

Make a working reproduction of the venerable KENBAK-1 with a fully integrated development environment including an Assembler and Debugger.

michael-gardiMichael Gardi 08/10/2021 at 00:460 Comments

I mentioned at the beginning of this project's Details that Adwater & Stir had some fine KENBAK-1 offerings. Based on Mark Wilson's code Adwater & Stir offers a ruler sized nanoKENBAK-1, a half size µKENBAK-1 kit, and will soon be offering a full sized kit as well. 

Well I couldn't resist getting myself a nanoKENBAK-1. It comes fully assembled and tested.

From tip to tip it's about 210 mm wide and 40 mm tall.  It's so cool to be able to program this ruler sized device, and as can be seen on the rear silk screen it includes both built in programs and the ability to store your own programs to EEPROM.

I couldn't resist making a minimal case and stand. It sits on my desk now running the built in BCD clock program (it has a RTC chip).

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