And covered in adhesive. No, I am NOT taking that typewriter apart again just to snap a photo of the motherboard.

Was expecting some 8051-esq microcontroller, not an embedded 8088 computer.

Wonder if that "AMI" on the rom has anything to do with "American Megatrends" 🤔

  • waterfox [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Seeing as it was made in late 1990, it's not surprising that things were being reduced down to PC motherboards on the inside.

    The real story is that new typewriters were still being made at that point. I suppose IBM didn't give up on the market for a while due to all the institutional buyers.