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"Computer Controlled vs. Breakerless Electronic" does sound like marketing terms for the same thing. I guess in 1982 computers were viewed as something special, just like in the 70's electronics in the car was worthy of advertising on the trunk (EFI, etc). But the module I pictured is nothing more than a transistorized ignition (amplifier) married to the reluctor pickup in the distributor. The one you have, assuming it looks like the ones in LH2.0 and LH2.2 cars does have a microprocessor on its board and controls timing based on its input from the distributor, knock sensor and manifold vacuum. So I guess that qualifies it as being a "computer".
So back to the subject... It seems a contradiction for you to have a brown wire with that computerized system, as I understood it to do the ballast function internally, without need to use the starter solenoid contact. But that could be answered in the transition of the design being done in 82, so I think you still have a very valid question about the ballast resistor. Lucid has a wiring diagram for yours, I gather, so I'd be very interested in where that brown wire goes. The blue/red in my later cars is hot in key position II (run) and III (crank), so I wouldn't think it necessary to run an extra brown wire from the starter contact to power the coil, unless that is one of the wiring changes made 82 to 83 in LH cars.
Sorry to wax verbose, especially to someone who's car is working!
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Art Benstein near Baltimore
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