Building AIM-65?

[Aloha6502]

I have the same idea and was just googling around and found this thread.

Has there been any progress?

I’ve just been browsing
http://cini.classiccmp.org/systems.htm#RWS

There’s a lot of info about the AIM 65 there.

[mark.williams]

My advice is to leave the (problematic) printer out of the design. It was only necesary because the original dislpay was single line so the user had no context. I hunted for cost effective thermal printer replacements that could operate at low baud rates for other old microprocessors and gave up. Given the amount of h/w change required to put in a modern display I would go for an OTS 4 line display that is driven by SPL or parallel i/f (4 lines for 4 bit data transfers and a couple more for status/control/strobe). 4 lines should provide enough history for most monitor operations. Of course if hard copy is required maybe an off-board vintage dot matrix. My ultimate hard copy choice for AIM 65 would be a teletype with paper tape for data I/O. Unfortunately these are very rare in Australia but I would think not for the USA?