Dead AIM 65??

[Ethan Dicks]

On 4/15/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Interesting - I always thought they were typically bare boards too. Our
> AIM 65 is rather industrialised, in a thick metal-bottomed case (with
> carry handle) and a thick fibreglass top (bright blue, looks bloody
> awful IMHO :-)

I'm sure Rockwell sold them as bare boards, but between the keyboard
and the printer (standard equipment), I've only seen them on metal
frames, with or without plastic lids.
 
> The red translucent display cover is cracked on ours, just in case
> anyone finds a replacement on an otherwise-dead machine.  (There's some
> damage to the fibreglass too, but nothing that couldn't be fixed there)

Heh... I have three, one complete, one nearly complete (got a NoS
printer off of eBay a while back) and one bare-board only, no
keyboard, no printer and no display.  I have either 3 or 4 of the
right LED displays (out of 10 needed for the two incomplete boards),
but no board to plug the LEDs into.  I've frequently contemplated
making my own board with point-by-point wiring, but just haven't ever
gotten around to starting (the board is simple - two header strips for
the LED modules, a 40 pin socket for a 6520/6821, and a row of holes
for .1" non-stranded-wire ribbon-cable that plugs into the
motherboard).  Needless to say, with all the other missing bits, I am
short the same red plexi that you are after, but quantity 2.

> Ours does have an expansion board (ISTR posting about it on the list a
> few months back) with extra RAM as well as various interfaces. (It was
> used as a diagnostic terminal for Xerox, although I don't know the
> specific function it carried out)

I remember something about you mentioning it.  I have external ROM
boards with a claims adjuster app on them, and a couple of EPROMs
mixed in with the normal masked-programmed ROMs on the mainboard,
attached via a hand-made cable to the expansion connector.

-ethan