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Remove the four Phillips head screws and then I/O board can then be removed. Disconnect all of the cables connected to I/O board except the LCD cables. Note on the bottom of the I/O board are the two serial ports and the parallel port for outside connection to Control Panel. Finally the three ribbon cables on the lower left of the I/O board the parallel cable and two serial cable connections. The next cable down on the left communicates with LED screen. Below the VFD cable on the left is the power cable for the floppy disk drive (FDD). The ribbon cable on the top left communicates with the VFD control panel. The several white and red wires on top right communicates with the LCD screen.

The two black data cable sockets at the top communicates with the X-Y axis drives and the needle head(s). The board on the right is the I/O board, all communication with the outside world goes though that board. This releases the control panel from the machine. Once the data cables and the power cable is disconnected, the four Phillips head screws in back can be removed. The front of the power cable connector has a release lever. Carefully disconnect the two data cable, each cable connection has two push points to release the connector. Moving back to the front of the machine pivot the control panel on it's hinge and look for the two data cable connections and power cable connection coming from inside the machine. Note the two sections are hinged together. To begin the dis-assembly loosen and remove the three thumb screws. The back of the SWF control panel has four Phillips head screws and three thumb head screws. For storage rather then a hard drive the SBC included a DishOnChip 2000 by M-System. The system as shipped included a 3 1/2' HD floppy drive, two serial ports and one parallel ports for input. The computer is a SBC (Single Board Computer). Some research on the internet allow us to determine that the embroidery machine utilized a embedded computer control system based on a processor similar to the Intel 80386. Eventually the operating system would not load and the machine would just sit with 'SYSTEM LOADING' displaying on the LCD screen. About 8 or 9 years ago the machine required that the operating system be reload each time the machine was started and any saved patterns were lost. This is later model of the same machine, it has similar control panel. For those not familiar this type machine here is a link to a similar machine in action SWF B/1501. Sometime in the late 90's my wife purchased an fifteen needle automated embroidery machine.

Floppy emulator wifi swf embroidery machine