15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
2:51 p.m.
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