Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!MSUS1.MSUS.EDU!PKBRANDON From: PKBRANDON@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Ohio Scientific Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 01:58:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 The AIM-65 was _my_ first computer. While Rockwell designed it as a development unit for builtin industrial 6502s, it also makes a good online controller. The hex keypad unit you're thinking of was the KIM-1 (by Commodore {!} I believe), probably the first widely (for those days-- the mid 70s) used single board computer. The AIM has (it's still supported, I believe, altho not by Rockwell itself anymore) a Microsoft BASIC much like Applesoft in ROM, as well as an Assembler in ROM. FORTH is a ROM alternative, and I believe that a Pascal was also available in ROM. The AIM has a regular ASCII keyboard and a 20 character LED ASCII display and 20 column onboard thermal printer. Many of us added second-source memory and display boards for regular CRTs (this all brings back memories!). I used (and still do, occasionally) mine to control behavioral psychology animal experiments. I learned my BASIC and miniAssember programming on it in 1979, just before I started using the AppleII (*not* a IIPlus). Anyone else still using an AIM? ------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Paul Brandon Psychology Dept Mankato State Univ --- --- PKBRANDON@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU Mankato, MN 56001 --- ------------------------------------------------------------------