The KIM-5, a ROM Board prodiced my Commodore for the KIM-1 appeared. All experts thought this piece of hard- and software would have been lost forever. Not a single ROM dump could be found, neither had any collector the Hardware.
This changes a couple of weeks ago:
Many years I searched on the internet on fora, websites and friends in the retro world, it did not lead to a dump of the KIM-5 ROMs. It was even doubted the KIM-5 with Assembler/Editor was ever sold, despite the adverts in magazines of that period.
A couple of years ago I saw a listing on ebay.de of a.o. a KIM-5 and a KIM-3B board. I was too late, could not contact the seller or buyer, but I knew the KIM-5 did exist!
A year later Stefan Hamann approached me to ask for information on KIM-1 material he bought from ebay. He was the buyer! Stefan was so nice to lent me the KIM-5 (and KIM-3B) and the EPROMs he obtained. I have finally a KIM-5 in my hands with ROMs!
Hans Otten found the unfindable! The KIM-5 ROMS have been dumped, and are available on his brilliant site, as well as the manual, plenty of pictures and the disassembles sources.
Congratulations Hans!
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