In my early teens I briefly had a Motorola dev board for the 6800 that had a very similar form factor, with a keypad and 7-segment display. I don’t know which came first, this or the KIM. Weirdly enough, even though I haven’t thought about this device in decades my brain immediately popped up a name for it: MK6800D2.
This is a super cool idea. I want to get an NEC TK-80 now and see if I can replicate it with a PC-8001.
Hey, thanks! That sounds like an excellent project and almost certainly possible with a similar method.
In my early teens I briefly had a Motorola dev board for the 6800 that had a very similar form factor, with a keypad and 7-segment display. I don’t know which came first, this or the KIM. Weirdly enough, even though I haven’t thought about this device in decades my brain immediately popped up a name for it: MK6800D2.
This, perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEK6800D2
Looks like they were roughly contemporaries, though the 6800 is of course older than the 6502.