New AIM-65!

[Joe R.]

At 04:03 PM 5/24/05 -0700, you wrote:
>>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
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>>   Found this today. I opened the case and immediately recognized the
>>AIM-65 even though it was under the panel. Bought it, brought home, opened
>>it up and sure enough it IS an AIM-65. It powers up and appears to work.
>>BTW the machine appears to be a magnetic card encoder/reader. Paperwork
>>with it indicates that it came from a nuclear weapons plant that's operated
>>by GE and located here in Florida.
>>
>>  <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/AIM-65/>. No text or links but the picture
>>titles should clearly indicate what each picture is.
>>
>>   Joe
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>Hi Joe
> Two of the ROMs look like Rockwell code while the others look
>like custom ROMs. Also, are the wheels on the card reader
>driven or just to hold tension to the heads? Does it take a
>standard credit card or a cut down version?

   Both wheels are driven and it appears to take credit card sized cards
but I haven't tried one yet. There is a magnetic head behind each wheel and
a microswitch above each one so that it can tell when a card reachs the
heads. I'm goping to have to go find some of those "free" credit cards that
they send me and go play with them.


> It does look like fun although missing the printer :(

   Yeah :-(  But it's not missing, it was built that way. Still the SBC
says "printer down" when you power it up so it knows the printer is
missing. I played with it some this PM and it seems to work. Now I just
need to dig up a PDF copy of the -65 manual and refresh my memory on the
commands and see if it still does any of the standard commands.

   Joe

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