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You might remember a recent article on an IS Electronics Saturn Address Checker. What you'll see on this page is the granddaddy of that one - it's about six times larger, and ten times heavier.
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It's truly enormous, nearly three feet long. Instead of a series of LEDs it has a SCSI port on the back side. There's a lot of empty space inside.
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There's no shortage of strangeness inside. Have a look at these chips - half the legs are soldered to the chips below, half aren't.
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They're located right below something else that's interesting.
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The CPUs are identical to the standard Saturn units, but they're mounted on removable PCBs. Underneath these are sockets for use with the Hitachi E7000 SH2 debugging system.
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Strangely they used some parts from the production Saturn.
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Like this CD-controller sub-PCB. And as you saw above the top of a Saturn shell inside, housing the original CD mechanism.
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