--- title: Usagi’s New Computer Is A Gas! | daily.dev description: A Motorola 68000-based embedded system originally used for gas station pump control was acquired at a swap meet and reverse engineered. The VME backplane... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/usagi-s-new-computer-is-a-gas--cy5inktch twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Usagi’s New Computer Is A Gas! | daily.dev og:description: A Motorola 68000-based embedded system originally used for gas station pump control was acquired at a swap meet and reverse engineered. The VME backplane... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/usagi-s-new-computer-is-a-gas--cy5inktch og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cY5iNKtcH.png og:image:alt: Usagi’s New Computer Is A Gas! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Usagi’s New Computer Is A Gas! **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Motorola 68000-based embedded system originally used for gas station pump control was acquired at a swap meet and reverse engineered. The VME backplane system runs pSOS real-time operating system, discovered through ROM dumps and string analysis. Initial power-up revealed RS-485 serial communication, though the protocol remains undecoded. 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