Ok, hee it goes: --- Rockwell's SYSTEM 65 SYSTEM 65 is a new easy to use, powerful, complete development system for the R6500 family of microcomputers. The basic configuration includes two built-in, mini-floppy disk drives, 16K bytes of user memory and 16 K bytes of resident operating system. Monitor commands are self-prompting whenever memory, peripheral, or disk file assignment is requiread. Text editor provides line, string, and character editing functions A resident two-pass assembler and dynamic debug package complete the operating system. Both source and object code may be maintained in memory for fast editing, assembling, and checkout. Since the total monitor, editor, debug and assembler are resident in ROM, 100% of the disk storage and drive utilization is available to the user. The mini-floppy diskettes may be used as storage for source and object code and documentation. Each diskette has the capacity for 78K bytes of information in a maximum of 60 files. SYSTEM 65 supports a vareity of terminals with serial data from 100 baud to 9600 baud. Connectors are provided for both RS-232 C and current loop interfaceing. Reader ON/OFF signals and the RTS/CTS control signals are standard. Included is a parallel port provideing automatic control to high speed printers, such as Diablo, Centronics and Tally. And Rockwell offers these options to SYSTEM 65: - PL/65 High-Level Language - USER 65 in-circuit emulation option - PROM Programmer Mofule, for programming a 2704/2708/2716/2758 PROM device from the front panel socket - R6500/1 Personality option, for developing with the R6500/1 single-chip microcomputer - 16Kx8 Static RAM Modules - PROM/ROM Module accepting 2316/2332 ROM or 2708/2716/2758 PROM devices - Wire-wrap Design Prototype Module - Extender Card for circuit probing --- The page continues with a description of PL/65. The very next page describes the AIM 65 Well, it is realy a great good feeling having put up all the shelveing and filled them with books :) Amazing what one can find by just looking around... BTW: the next thing I learned by peeking into the LCE (Low Cost Emulator) Manual for the R6500/1 Family is that this unit is basicly a complete SYSTEM 65 with the probe and 6500/* Personality module... AFAI can tell from the LCE manuals, the SYSTEM 65 box is fited with two system busses - one for the host system, and one for possible add ons for the target system ... so you could not only ICE the target system, but also add on hardware liek RAM, ROM, or even a disk system without putting it onto your PCB. What a nice idea. I guess I need a SYSTEM 65... Marvin, I hope this was of some help to you. Servus Hans -- VCF Europa 3.0 am 27./28. April 2002 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/

SOL-20 Dual 8" Floppy Drive Box (don't recall the real name.)

>> > In digging around, I again ran across the Rockwell System 65. A

>> > search didn't turn up any references except to a Forth system

Ok, hee it goes: --- Rockwell's SYSTEM 65 SYSTEM 65 is a new easy to use, powerful, complete development system for the R6500 family of microcomputers. The basic configuration includes two built-in, mini-floppy disk drives, 16K bytes of user memory and 16 K bytes of resident operating system. Monitor commands are self-prompting whenever memory, peripheral, or disk file assignment is requiread. Text editor provides line, string, and character editing functions A resident two-pass assembler and dynamic debug package complete the operating system. Both source and object code may be maintained in memory for fast editing, assembling, and checkout. Since the total monitor, editor, debug and assembler are resident in ROM, 100% of the disk storage and drive utilization is available to the user. The mini-floppy diskettes may be used as storage for source and object code and documentation. Each diskette has the capacity for 78K bytes of information in a maximum of 60 files. SYSTEM 65 supports a vareity of terminals with serial data from 100 baud to 9600 baud. Connectors are provided for both RS-232 C and current loop interfaceing. Reader ON/OFF signals and the RTS/CTS control signals are standard. Included is a parallel port provideing automatic control to high speed printers, such as Diablo, Centronics and Tally. And Rockwell offers these options to SYSTEM 65: - PL/65 High-Level Language - USER 65 in-circuit emulation option - PROM Programmer Mofule, for programming a 2704/2708/2716/2758 PROM device from the front panel socket - R6500/1 Personality option, for developing with the R6500/1 single-chip microcomputer - 16Kx8 Static RAM Modules - PROM/ROM Module accepting 2316/2332 ROM or 2708/2716/2758 PROM devices - Wire-wrap Design Prototype Module - Extender Card for circuit probing --- The page continues with a description of PL/65. The very next page describes the AIM 65 Well, it is realy a great good feeling having put up all the shelveing and filled them with books :) Amazing what one can find by just looking around... BTW: the next thing I learned by peeking into the LCE (Low Cost Emulator) Manual for the R6500/1 Family is that this unit is basicly a complete SYSTEM 65 with the probe and 6500/* Personality module... AFAI can tell from the LCE manuals, the SYSTEM 65 box is fited with two system busses - one for the host system, and one for possible add ons for the target system ... so you could not only ICE the target system, but also add on hardware liek RAM, ROM, or even a disk system without putting it onto your PCB. What a nice idea. I guess I need a SYSTEM 65... Marvin, I hope this was of some help to you. Servus Hans -- VCF Europa 3.0 am 27./28. April 2002 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/