>One question that does come up is how to handle the repackaging and
>remailing assuming we can buy them as a bulk deal. I have access to a
I'm sure there will be enough people in the bay area to warrant a dinner
get-together to distribute a bulk package.
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Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
> 1. What is an Aim65?
It's a singleboard 6502 system/eval kit from Rockwell, sort of like
the MOS/CBM KIM-1, only different. 6502, some RAM, some ROM
(sockets?), 20-char LED display, QWERTY keyboard, cash-register
printer, a couple of bus connectors off the left side of the board.
Actually, I'm not sure if the display, keyboard, and printer were
there on all of them but I remember them being sold with those in the
late 1970s/early 1980s.
> 2. What is a good price to offer to buy/sell one?
A few years ago I paid $5 for one at Foothill. It had apparently been
OEMd into a nutrition advising system of some sort, as that is what
seemed to be in the ROMs and it came in a cheap plastic case that
pretty much hid the guts (just sturdy enough to be a frame for the
AIM-65 and the power supply). No documentation, either for the AIM-65
itself or for the nutrition software.
I don't recall for sure, but would expect that an AIM-65 from Rockwell
would have come with something other than the nutrition software in
the ROM sockets. Somewhere I do have an AIM-65 manual but it is (like
most of my collection at present) in storage.
-Frank McConnell
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Glenn Roberts wrote:
> i'm interested in one of the Aim 65's. $20 seems like a fair offering
> price. you mentioned a bulk offer but then you mentioned his email address
> so wasn't clear if you guys were trying to coordinate this or let everyone
> deal directly with him. let me know how this pans out. tx.
I didn't want to seem like a slick willy trying to take over the
negotiations for everyone. But I think it would be best if one person
did the negotiating and made the deal. It depends on what everyone
wants. If it's OK with everyone else, I or Marvin can do the deal, then
let everyone know. Otherwise, if everyone wants to take a stab at it
themselves, that's fine. I think the easiest for all parties is to offer
a bulk buyout at a set price. I think everyone will come away winners.
Sam
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I apologize if this is a repeat question but I can't seem to find the
previous post.
What were the solutions to removing yellowing from the plastic cases? I
bought a printer that looks terrible. Not sure what caused it so any
suggestions helpful at this point.
thanks,
Greg
Hi.
I'm a small-time collector interested in older unix machines, though
I think I'd be more interested in micros if I had more room than
my apartment provides.
I was picking up a load of Sun VME-bus equipment today and ran across
some memory boards. These are definitely not for the suns, neither
multi-bus nor vmebus. The boards are perhaps 12"x16" and are populated
with what I presume to be memory chips (AMD 21-17559-01 / 8333EMM)
in 16 banks of 9 chips each. The connector along the back has 6
distinct edge-card pieces, with 18 contacts per connector per side.
All of the boards appear to be more or less of the same nature, but
one is manufactured by Motorola, and 4 have digital markings. Along
the back of three of the digital boards, there are two metal
protrusions. One says AM, the other M8210. The other digital board
is AZ M8210, and it has a lot of Mostek chips that I would guess
are 16kbit 300ns chips . .
Does anyone know what machine used these boards?
The sun equipment I salvaged was sadly without CPU board or power supply but
I did manage to grab 2 8mb boards and a bevy of SCSI and SMD controllers.
I guess I can add it to my collection of old sun hardware that needs
drives to become operational. Do SMD drives frequently show up at
swap meets, etc?
matt
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>
> If you get one of these up and running, I have a Scelbi book, "Space
> Wars for the 8008 Microprocessor" with full hex code listings...
I've designed using that chip and still have my MCS-8 microcomputer set
manual from intel If you need help.
FYI another old ram chip that fits with that CPU is 2101 (256x4).
Allison
In a message dated 97-06-18 00:54:51 EDT, bill(a)booster.bothell.washington.edu
(Bill Whitson) wrote:
<< - Does anyone consider the Franklin Ace 1000 Apple II clone very
> collectible?
Yes. It was a legitimate alternative to the Apple II+ at a lower price. I
designed my first database on a 1000 and found it to be 100% compatible with
the II+ (it should have been since they copied the II+ roms) and very
reliable. I think that the Franklin line as well as the Laser series of
clones belongs in any Apple II collection.
Lou
At 12:22 PM 6/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>1", "Lotus", "dBase II", "Wordstar", "IBM PC", and "Multimate". Anyone
>out there know what these are and what they go to? Thanks!
Well, "IBM PC" helps date it, as does "dBase II". Has to be early-to-mid
80's. I would guess, off the top of my head, PCjr cartridges? Do I win the
prize?
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