single board computer

Commodore: A Company on the Edge
by Brian Bagnall
Published 13 Sep 2005

They also added a number after the computer name, a practice later continued by Commodore. It contained one kilobyte of memory, hence KIM-1.[5] McLaughlin, a calculator engineer, had designed his first computer. “If you look at a KIM single board computer, it was a calculator engineer’s view of a single board computer,” says Mensch. “You had a Keyboard Input Monitor, so you used the keypad to code in instructions on the single board computer with a little LED character display.” The finished computer looked like a giant calculator. * * * The team now had dozens of working microprocessor chips, a development system, and demonstration computers, but their battle was just beginning.

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MOS Technology released the KIM-1 in 1975, the same year as the Altair 8800 computer. The Altair has come to be known as the first personal computer system in North America to herald the new microcomputer revolution. The differences between the KIM-1 and the Altair computer illustrate a split in design philosophy within the computer world. The KIM-1 was a single-board computer, with all components mounted on a single printed-circuit board. It had room for expansion, but there were no slots to insert adapter cards. This design philosophy reduced production costs and thus gave the KIM-1 a major pricing advantage over the Altair. The Altair 8800 used an Intel 8080 chip, which retailed for $360, but inventor Ed Roberts was able to negotiate the price down to $75 each in bulk.

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“After we were bought by Commodore, we were approached by Rockwell to buy rights to the product,” he recalls. “Rockwell came along and gave us a bunch of prestige.” With a third, stable source for the 6502, hardware makers were more likely to use the 6502 in their products. Rockwell released a “KIM-like” single-board computer called the AIM-65. The 6502 system was similar to the KIM-1, but contained a 20-digit LED display and a tiny thermal printer mounted directly on the motherboard. It also included a full-sized keyboard, which attached to the board by a ribbon cable. The system sold for under $500. Synertek, the existing second source for the 6502 microprocessor, also released a KIM-1 clone called the VIM.

On Intelligence
by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
Published 1 Jan 2004

I hope you enjoy it. 1 Artificial Intelligence When I graduated from Cornell in June 1979 with a degree in electrical engineering, I didn't have any major plans for my life. I started work as an engineer at the new Intel campus in Portland, Oregon. The microcomputer industry was just starting, and Intel was at the heart of it. My job was to analyze and fix problems found by other engineers working in the field with our main product, single board computers. (Putting an entire computer on a single circuit board had only recently been made possible by Intel's invention of the microprocessor.) I published a newsletter, got to do some traveling, and had a chance to meet customers. I was young and having a good time, although I missed my college sweetheart who had taken a job in Cincinnati.

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest
Published 17 Oct 2014

Thus, while a basic 3D printer in 2007 cost nearly $40,000, the new Peachy Printer—recently funded on Kickstarter—is now available for just $100. And that’s only the start: Avi Reichental, CEO of market leader 3D Systems, sees no obstacles to bringing his company’s high-end 3D printers to market for just $399 within the next five years. Another example of this trend includes single-board computers for robotics and education, where the open sourced Raspberry Pi platform has proved transformative. The same is true of single-board controllers, where Arduino has assumed dominance. No surprise, then, that one of the most popular new memes in the computer business is that “hardware is the new software.”

Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System
by Chet Haase
Published 12 Aug 2021

Meanwhile, Brian Swetland, who had worked with Andy at Danger, was looking for a new challenge. Brian Swetland, Android’s First Engineer From the age of five, Brian Swetland (referred to simply as “Swetland” on the team) had been a systems programmer. “My father soldered together a Timex Sinclair clone, a single board computer with membrane keyboard, on our kitchen table over two or three evenings and hooked it up to a crappy old black and white TV. You could type things in BASIC. It did stuff — it was this magical thing. And you learn life lessons that stick with you, like which end of the soldering iron to never pick up.”

Mastering Blockchain, Second Edition
by Imran Bashir
Published 28 Mar 2018

This is a simple example and requires a more rigorously-tested version to implement it in production, but it demonstrates how an IoT device can be connected, controlled, and responded to in response to certain events on an Ethereum blockchain. IoT blockchain experiment This example makes use of a Raspberry Pi device which is a Single Board Computer (SBC). The Raspberry Pi is a SBC developed as a low-cost computer to promote computer education but has also gained much more popularity as a tool of choice for building IoT platforms. A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is shown in the following picture. You may be able to use earlier models too, but those have not been tested: Raspberry Pi Model B In the following section, an example will be discussed where a Raspberry Pi will be used as an IoT device connected to the Ethereum blockchain and will act in response to a smart contract invocation.

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara
Published 8 Jul 2019

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