NAME

AIM 65

MANUFACTURER

Rockwell

TYPE

Home Computer

ORIGIN

U.S.A.

YEAR

1976

BUILT-IN LANGUAGE

Optional Basic ROM

KEYBOARD

Full-stroke keyboard

CPU

Rockwell 6502

RAM

4 KB (up to 32 KB of static RAM)

ROM

12 KB

TEXT MODES

1 line of 20 characters (LED screen)

GRAPHIC MODES

None

COLORS

None

SOUND

None

I/O PORTS

Application bus, expansion bus, ROM connector

POWER SUPPLY

5 v

 

AIM-65

AIM-65

 This strange computer was designed to be a development system for 6502 based computers. It has no display except for a small 20 character LED screen and a very small thermal printer located directly on the motherboard which can print everything that is typed on the keyboard.

The board features five 4 KB-ROM sockets. Two of them are 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: BASIC card (BASIC language with floating point mathematic 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.