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IIRC there was a trivial short to disable the b64 and ID. That and installing a power switch was my first ever real soldering project.

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Yeah, exactly. I was puzzled about the talk of Windows-only and hacked software. I soldered on a jumper wire (with a slide switch to easily revert back if needed) and used it as a barcode reader in FreeBSD.

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