Pictures: Re: Cybex Data Reduction Computer??

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat Jul 24 10:55:52 2004

At 12:08 AM 7/24/04 +0000, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:16:01PM -0700, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>> A number of people slapped lables on AIM-65's. I have
>> a box similar to this with a few extra boards added that
>> is AIM-65 based as well.
>> What other than the shell is non-AIM-65 ??
>
>Me, too... mine came with a board loaded with EPROMs mounted _under_ the
>AIM-65 motherboard.


   I took this one apart this morning. It has two cards under the AIM-65
board. I haven't looked close but one of them appears to be an A/D card.
The other has 24 2114 RAM chips on it along with two 74154s.

   I posted pictures of it at <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/cybex/>.



>
>Oh... a little tip - I have proven that the 6520 on the display board can
>be replaced with an 6821 (I have a number of 6821s since they were used to
>drive the printer port and the diagnostic display for the original COMBOARD
>model).

  That's good to know. Can a 6821 simply be dropped in it's place or does
it require any other changes?


>
>I have more than one AIM-65 at home, but only one display board. One of my
>projects is to fabricate a replica on perfboard. Mostly via eBay, I've
>managed to pick up a few of the 4-char ASCII displays that are on that board.


  I've seen a lot of displays around that look like these. I should pick up
some for spares.


>Barring that, I was thinking about using some modern ASCII displays that I
>picked up for a couple $$ each from BG Micro, and re-writing the relevant
>ROM code. Obviously, direct replacement is simpler.
>
>-ethan
>
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