Just got an AIM-65 system which is packaged under the name "Cybex Data Reduction Computer". It has a plastic case that includes a power supply. The AIM board is plugged into a 'backplane' that includes 12KB of static RAM, and another board with a D/A on it. It was made in about 1983.

Pete

This (AIM-65) is the one I started on in school in Jan '82. The ones at school had no case, being mounted on particle board. They only had about 1K of RAM as I remember; but we definitely did not use all of it. All programs were hand-assembled to start, and we used the AIM-65's monitor program to enter everything as pairs of hex digits.

We had to buy the Rockwell books that went with the AIM-65 for that class. We also had to buy Adam Osborne's "An Introduction to Microcomputers", vol 1, "Basic Concepts", published by McGraw-Hill. Although this book was not 6502-specific, it was excellent and I would highly recommend it to any beginner who is able to find it.