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It looks like they have changed the boards fairly significantly. Many parts substitutions -- notable the capacitor farm looks like it has been replaced by a battery backup capacitor. The overall parts count seems to be reduced in more places than (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ah, that explains those people talking about easily wiping the memory by pulling the AC adapter out - the old RCX lost everything immediately, right? The new one claims to (and seems to, but I haven't timed it) retain its memory for up to a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It beeps just before it runs out of juice - sadly my batteries keep running low when the RCX is in off mode. I'm right now working on making a set of dummy batteries/internal 9v AC connection. The bottom end of the RCX would easily allow a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Only if the RCX was "on" at the time. If the RCX is "off" then power usage is reduced to a trickle, supplying power only to maintain the data in RAM, and in this state the RCX can survive for upwards of a minute or more, even with no batteries (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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