Date   : Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:54:38 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: Easter Disaster

Johan Heuseveldt wrote:
  > After experimenting there's a little prob with it: you need to pull
> out the keyboard encoder for the Master keyboard. And most Masters
> had this soldered on the PCB. There was only one Master 128 here
> that has the chip socketed. After removing this and soldered in
> the 17 pins header I connected a BBC-B keyboard which was then
> fully functional!

Wonder if it would be possible to just cut the chip select line to this 
chip, if it's not socketed, asuming that a pinout for it is known, would 
be easier to reverse, and harder to screw up your master with dodgy 
de-soldering :(

Cheers.

Phill.

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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.