This email is intended for Paul Lamar. If you're not Paul Lamar then I
apologize for the intrusion and please disregard.


Paul,

I stumbled across your website during a google search for information on
the SuperKIM. References to the SuperKIM are few and far between on the
web. Being an avid collector of vintage technology and a former SuperKIM
owner I was compelled to contact you. My interest in the SuperKIM was
recently rekindled when I saw one on ebay.

In the late 70's I was engaged in the development of motion control
systems for use in the animation and special effects industry at a
company in Northridge, CA. At that time there were commercially
available systems for such work but they were based on PDP-11s and
prohibitively expensive. We began experimenting with KIM-1s to control
several stepping motors which drove cameras and various mechanical
actuators. Like you, I didn't really know what an assembler did and
generated all of our code by hand in hex for manual entry into the KIM.
I began experimenting with the MOS 6522 chip and was able to generate
motor control signals and track motor position, which was critical to
our application. At some point one of my colleagues showed me an
advertisement for the SuperKIM (I don't recall which publication) and we
decided to make the road trip to Redondo Beach to check it out.  To this
day I remember that visit to your shop and the feeling that we were on
the bleeding edge of a technological revolution. We purchased a SuperKIM
and, eventually, an AIM-65 as a development system. For the next couple
of years we produced numerous film projects using our SuperKIM-based
system which aired throughout the US and internationally.

I want to thank you for your contribution to the early years of embedded
computing and the motion picture special effects industry.

Sincerely,

Rob Burton
Toronto, ON


P.S. - I hope I win the ebay auction for the SuperKIM. I have KIM-1's
and and AIM-65, but the SuperKIM would really really round out the
collection.


Your welcome Rob.

Yep that's me Rob. I just threw out a whole box of Kim 1 manuals.
I have lots of doc left. Included is a complete set of 6502 Micro magazines.
I have a ton of stuff including SK printed circuit art work and Kim 1 ROMS.
There are some unpopulated SK PC boards as well. Many chips. I would like to get rid of it but I can't bring myself to throw it out yet. I need the room however.

http://www.rotaryeng.net/RT1.pdf

It is getting cold up there. If you can come out to California
you can gather up a lot of stuff and take it back with you.
I'll sell you everything I have for $500 U.S.. You can stay in the apartment
above my hangar for free for a couple of days. 10 minutes from the beach.
Pick out what you want. Bring a truck :)

One of my very young ex employees Steve Linn developed a machine that converted
35 mm film  to video in real time. Prior to that it cost over a million to convert a film  movie to video.  He got to be a millionaire before he was 30.
Steve learned 6502 assembler when he was 14.

I'll be gone to London (UK) :) for a few days next week so make it later than that.

Paul Lamar