Re: help replacing Ram Chips on an Apple //e

[Ole Voss <joker@on-line.de>]

You were definitely lucky that time!
Anybody with a couple of years electronics experience can confirm that you
were simply lucky to have a very polite RAM-IC.



Supertimer wrote:

> "Rick Kerman" <rkerman@mail.bright.net> wrote:
>
> >Some motherboards had sockets for the chips, but most of them
> >were soldered in.
> >
> >Ignore the moron who says you can piggyback chips.
>
> Um, excuse me...piggybacking chips fixed my IIe for SIX YEARS.
>
> I am not saying that it is the most elegant solution or that it is the
> best solution, but it worked in my case.  I saw the fix in an issue
> of Family Computing magazine.
>
> If you don't believe me, I can dig up that old issue of Family
> Computing, scan the article, and email it to you!
>
> The only reason I did this was because I did not know how to
> desolder at the time.  If you don't know how to desolder the chip,
> might as well try this method.


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