Talk:AIM-65
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The information about MTU products appears to have been added by someone who was either closely associated with MTU or was a fan of the company. It made the demonstrably false claim that the MTU visible memory card was the first graphics display for a microcontroller; the Cromemco Dazzler, several Matrox products, and other products from other vendors predated it.
The claim is also made that an MTU product provided the first wavetable synthesis for a microcomputer. I am somewhat skeptical that they were first at that either, but haven't removed the claim yet pending finding a documented earlier device. The fact that Hal Chamberlin was a founder of MTU does lend some credibility to the first wavetable synthesis claim, since he later wrote one of the best early books on the subject, "Musical Applications of Microprocessors".
I am in general somewhat skeptical that MTU should be singled out for mention as a vendor of AIM-65 related products at all, particularly with prose that sounds more like a marketing brochure than an encyclopedia entry. I had an AIM-65 when they were new, and investigated and purchased several accessories from several vendors, but had never even heard of MTU. If they are really worthy of any exposition in Wikipedia at all, they should have their own paged linked from AIM-65, rather than a lot of description here. Ideally on this page there would be a list of several representative accessory vendors, including MTU. --Brouhaha 17:55, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I do wonder why Pakistan International Airlines is linked in to expand on the PIA chip. At first glance it seems somewhat tangential. 85.164.111.88 18:34, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I replaced the PIA redirect page with a disambiguation page. There still needs to be an article (even just a stub) for Peripheral Interface Adapter. --Brouhaha 22:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The 6522 isn't a PIA anyhow, it's a MOS Technology 6522 VIA. I added that to the VIA disambiguation page.
--Brouhaha 22:11, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
