24 May
2005
24 May
'05
4:03 p.m.
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
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
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?
It does look like fun although missing the printer :(
Dwight
24 May
24 May
4:48 p.m.
At 04:03 PM 5/24/05 -0700, you wrote:
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.
From: "Joe
R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
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
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? 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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