On Thu, 19 Jun 1997 jpero(a)mail.cgo.wave.ca wrote: No it isn't useful at all. The beastie is about 20 years old and is so outdated even the dinosaurs got bored with it. However, so of us dinosaurs, have fond and long memories! Well, that way has worked before - for oh say a couple of million years 8-) The AIM-65 is a 6502 development system. I think it first appeared about 1978. The KIM-1 board (which was just that - a board with 6 LED displays and a hexideciaml keyboard plus some other switches) came out about 1976 and the SYM-1 (and expanded version made by Synertek Systems Corp.) had a speaker. 6 LED displays and 2 (YES 2) serial ports came out some where in between. Bothe the KIM and the SYM came standard with 1K of memory. The AIM-65 showed up with a QWERTY keyboard and a PRINTER with a 20 character display! WOW! All of them could only access 64K of memory. The KIM and SYM came standard with 20 ma current loop drivers for the ASR-33 and DEC LA-whatever that also used the 20 ma current loop. The AIM didn't need anything else and was widely integrated into many stand alone single purpose computers. Of course, since it was SO complete it sold for twice what the others sold for. I would believe most KIM's and SYM's where tossed around 84-86 when you could buy REAL Intel power for you desktop 8-( and the 68000 came out - I don't remember when. These boards have been turned into real production type beasts by thier owners but still they just didn't have the omph to do the more demanding tasks. The AIM continued to enjoy the dedicated stand aone market for some time however - even tho they stopped selling them. You could just reuse them. The 6502 and the 6800, which it came from, along with the 8080 and it's child the Z80 are still the most popular subfunction controllers around. There are now being replaced with the PIC series (IMHO) and will eventually fade into to sunset. All I want is a ray of sunshine 8-) BC

On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote: So ship the whole lot to me in mid-western Canada. That way it'll be eqidistant from both coasts when I ship them out. (I'm just kidding, of course.) The logical (to me, anyway) solution seems to be to have the east coast people in the same area code pick them up, ship out the ones closer to the east coast. Pack up the rest in one shipment and send them to CA (state code, not the confusing country code) and have the rest distributed/shipped from there. Does that make any sense at all? Maybe I need a bit more sleep. Of course, then, which end am I closer to? All UPS shipments between US/Canada go through winnipeg. But I'm rambling now. (Thinking out loud?) I promise I'll shut up now. ttfn srw