1976- Rockwell AIM-65 (2/2024)

Object/Artifact

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VintageComputer.Gallery

Name/Title

1976- Rockwell AIM-65 (2/2024)

Tags

Rockwell

Description

This strange computer was designed to be a development system for 6502 based computers. It had no display except for a small 20 character LED screen and a very small thermal printer located directly on the motherboard which could print everything that was typed on the keyboard. The board featured five 4 KB-ROM sockets. Two of them were dedicated to the AIM monitor program, including an instant input assembler (no labels) and a disassembler. Various programming languages (BASIC, FORTH...) or custom applications could be added in the three remaining sockets. Several cards were developed for this machine, especially language cards and ROMs: a BASIC card (BASIC language with floating point mathematics capabilities), PL/65 (a mixture of the PL/1 and Algol languages), Instant Pascal (an interpreted version of Pascal), Assembler and the FORTH programming language.

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

EBay

Date

May 1, 2012