foreign source and when Emerson began they more larger carts than smaller, so…?
• The overall quality of these circuit boards is radically better than the boards made for either of the other two game families. For instance, this is the only system that used gold plating on its edge connectors. Going a step further, however, they had every part of every inner circuit board trace gold-plated. (That is very rare?!) In addition, there are extensive “vias” or plated holes that go through the board, from one side to another. Every one of these costs manufacturing money, and yet they used two vias per connection on most traces, and four vias per connection at the more critical locations such as the power and ground lines. This costs more to manufacture but also reduces the odds of a bad connection. These boards are also made out of heavy-duty fiberglass-reinforced materials, instead of the more common non-reinforced phenolic resin boards that the Emerson family carts used. All of this points in the same direction; that this was most like a very early game system, made be
