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Unread 08-10-2002, 20:25
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Originally posted by rbayer

As for the OI/RC and teams greater than 1000, it currently supports teams up to 4096 (2^12) internally but only has the LCD space to display 999. The current documentation just says that any teams over 999 will appear as ---. I'm pretty sure it still works internally, though, as the dashboard port specs also use 12 bits for the team number. InnovationFIRST will have to make some changes to the feedback electronics, but the core should remain about the same (I hope!).
As mentioned the programming of the internals already supports the 4096 max team number by allotting enough bits everywhere.

Physically, there was space for another dip socket on the circuit board in the first version of the RC, but the case over the socket was opaque.