{"id":1073,"date":"2014-09-04T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2014-09-04T14:37:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:37:29","slug":"andrew-kay-1919-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1073\/andrew-kay-1919-2014","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Kay (1919-2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2014\/sep\/03\/andrew-kay-mit-kaypro-computers-pioneer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/andy_kay_lead_r620x349.jpg' alt='Andrew Kay, founder of KayPro' class=\"centered shadow\" width=\"420\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>In Memoriam: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2014\/sep\/03\/andrew-kay-mit-kaypro-computers-pioneer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kay (1919-2014)<\/a>, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/kayproii.html\" target=\"_blank\">KayPro<\/a><br \/>and inventor of the digital voltmeter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/kayproii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kaypro II<\/a> (1982), sold by Andrew Kay&#8217;s company, was one of the earliest vintage computers I added to my collection (and my first CP\/M machine) way back in the early 1990s.  Its high-quality components, including its sturdy metal case, its integrated serial and parallel ports, its full-sized keyboard, and its sharp 9-inch green-screen monitor made it a joy to use.  And man, it had an 80-column display, which made it a competent word processing machine even in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>With everything integrated, the Kaypro II was a truly plug-and-play machine at a time when other systems required hooking up chains of various peripherals to get things done.  With the KayPro II, you folded down the keyboard, plugged it into an outlet, inserted a disk, and flipped it on.  It was an island oasis in a sea of endless computer cords.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Kay&#8217;s achievements were great (among his other works, he invented the digital voltmeter in 1952).  He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam: Andrew Kay (1919-2014), founder of KayProand inventor of the digital voltmeter The Kaypro II (1982), sold by Andrew Kay&#8217;s company, was one of the earliest vintage computers I added to my collection (and my first CP\/M machine) way back in the early 1990s. Its high-quality components, including its sturdy metal case, its integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42,21,10],"tags":[880,881,882,340,771,883],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-memorials","category-news-current-events","category-computers","tag-andrew-kay","tag-kaypro","tag-kaypro-ii","tag-memorials","tag-news","tag-voltmeter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}