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   Jeff Skaistis (jeffska@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 10:47:02 JST Jeff Skaistis

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs The green thing is a 20-pin ZIF socket for an IC. Not sure what the other two things are.

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     Dissy (dissy614@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 11:17:19 JST Dissy

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs since so many people are saying it, no, this is 100% not for a rom.

     roms are 0.6 wide not 0.3, and need data+address+control lines. Even a 256 byte chip needs 20 pins.

     Both keyboard and joystick are 0.3 wide 16 pin DIP sockets.
     The keyboard is a one byte input port on the databus so can't have two and a select switch.
     Joystick was internal connector only, so an extension is the only way to swap joysticks without opening the lid.

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     Dissy (dissy614@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 11:17:20 JST Dissy

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs The internal joystick connector is a DIP socket on that side.
     Before the IIe there wasn't a 9-pin on the back for it.

     Are those buttons or switches?

     A shift-key mod was a common thing, and a switch to choose 'reset' or 'control+reset' to trigger a soft reset

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