Inside the VPE-151

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Metal case is 1.75mm thick.  Keyboard weighs 6lbs, 7.7oz.

Had to open it up and take a peek.  I was anxious to:

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Sorry for the dirt in the photos; these are pre-cleanup.

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I was able to find a datasheet on the NEC uPD8049H; it is an 8-bit microprocessor that can run up to 11MHz.  It has 128 bytes of RAM, 2KB of ROM, 27 I/O lines.  The datasheet pinouts for ground, power, and external crystal match what I observe on the PCB.  It is being run with a 2.4576MHz crystal.vcpu vconnectors vconnector2 vconnector1 vcherryblack

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