Step one: Be a genius

Step two: Try to solve hard problems

Step three: Avoid reading too much of other people's work in the area

Step four: (Maybe) Invent a brilliant new solution

But really, really don't skip step one.

Nicely done, this looks quite useful!

This is a very niche kind of cool. There's something purely fun about reviving old tech and it's not a simple feat.

I think it would be cool if you did a follow-up article on the "why" part — what inspired you about the KIM-1, why you thought it was interesting to revive, etc.

It's the original machine in the microcomputer lineage.

Well, the JOLT [1] predated the KIM-1 [2], I think. At least, I had a JOLT before I had a KIM-1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer_Associates

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1