From: bruce#fanboy.net@127.0.0.1   
      
   In article <-Nidnd3O0IAFnyTXnZ2dnUVZ_gNi4p2d@giganews.com>,   
    Kendrick Kerwin Chua  wrote:   
      
   > This stimulates my collector's urge, as I thought the TMSS occurred at   
   > the same time that the port was removed.   
      
   I only know it didn't because I have found at least one with both TMSS   
   and an EXT port. Pre-TMSS units (at least in the USA) seem to be rather   
   difficult to find in the wild, which surprised me because of the legal   
   battles that it brought about. (I was looking for one mostly as a   
   faster-booting dev test unit.)   
      
   FYI, if you peek inside the cartridge slot door, there is enough of the   
   circuit board visible that you could easily identify a pre-TMSS unit.   
   But I haven't fired up the real thing in months, so I don't have a known   
   unit handy right now to describe it.   
      
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