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 In article <833564542_OASIS_@esteem.demon.co.uk>
  simon@esteem.demon.co.uk (Simon Daw) said:-

>Has anybody got experience of fitting the RSVE serial port accelerator from
>System Solutions to their Atari (STE)?

Nope! :-(

>I recently purchased RSVE, but have put off fitting it because the instructions
>are very poor.  In a nutshell the instructions are as follows:
>
>        - Cut pin 16 of the MFP from the main board
>        - Connect TID Brown Wire to pin 16 of the MFP
>        - Connect TUA Green Wire to pin 7 or pin 10 of the MFP
>        - Connect +5V Red Wire to VCC (5V) on the main board
>        - Connect GND Black Wire to GND on the main board
>
>The question I have is: Where on the main board do I find VCC (5V) and GND?

Plenty of places - lots of atari books have chip pinouts on them. Try 
looking for +5V and GND on one of them near where you want a feed. If 
you have no atari books look on the smaller more general purpose chips 
and ask for a pinout for some of those.

>I have an STE with the 48 pin MFP in DIL housing and I possess all the
>cutting/soldering skills that I need - It's just that I'm not an electronics
>expert and don't know where to find these points on the main board.

Note - some atari books are wrong so either cross-reference one book 
against another or follow the PCB tracks to another chip and cross 
reference it that way.

You could also find a local electronics shop and take the motherboard 
in there. Electronics shops are usually one of the rare places you can 
go ask questions without buying anything and still find the staff dead 
helpful! :-))

I've got an old motherboard lying around so I *might* be able to help. 
Where does the upgrade actually fit physically?


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk