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From: dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks)
Subject: Re: RESET button for C64
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 15:27:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.152715.640@coplex.uucp>
References: <1991Jun13.125540.2364@cho006.cho.ge.com>

house_s@cho006.cho.ge.com writes:

>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?

*Dont* connect RESET to a +5V line; you will at best simply blow your
fuse, and at worst have a burnt out motherboard.

Connecting RESET to ground is what you want to do to effectively create
a reset situation.

--
dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks)
Copper Electronics, Inc.
Louisville, Kentucky