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From: cgreen@essex.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: RESET button for C64
Message-ID: <5318@servax0.essex.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jun 91 19:22:19 GMT
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From article <1991Jun13.125540.2364@cho006.cho.ge.com>, by house_s@cho006.cho.ge.com:
> 
> I would very much like to have a reset button for my C64.  I figure all that is
> needed is a normally-open push button that is connected between the RESET
> line and +5V or possibly connected between
> _____
> RESET and ground, if RESET is active low.  Is this all that is needed, or must
> there be anything else?
> 
The second version is right.  What is needed to do a reset is to pull
the RESET line down to 0v.  This will cause much less trauma to the
chips in your C64 and the PSU than a power-down and power up.

Chris Green


(chris@kbss.bt.co.uk  or  cgreen@essex.ac.uk)







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