Great find

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Thu Apr 29 16:19:09 1999

> > > I picked up a Rockwell Aim65 today for zero cost and seems to be in great
> > > shape. It looks like a large calculator and the housing is in very good
> > > condition.

> > Think of it as a supered KIM - a realy neat machine (BTW: I'm
> > still looking for one for a friend of mine, who needs one as
> > a controller for his central heating system).

> Although not as popular or valued as much as the KIM,
> Synertec made an evaluation board called the SYM-1 and
> SYM-2. Both of these boards could run KIM code with a
> little modification of vectors. There was an issue with
> the way the keyboard was scanned but a little coding would
> get around that. Watch for these boards, they should be
> much cheaper than the more famous KIM or Aim65's.

The SYM is a real neat board, also a supered KIM with _huge_
memory (4K!) a _big_ keyboard, a huge OS and even on board
video...

And for the SYM-2 thing - I have only seen once in my life:
in a shop around 1979, offered at mucho Marko :(

Gruss
H.

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HRK
Received on Thu Apr 29 1999 - 16:19:09 BST

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