sporadic wrote:
I'm not all that eager to mess with the
CPU (I'm terrified of cracking the PLCC socket!) or the crystal yet,
so the cache is a good start.
The crystal is socketed though, so what's the best way to safely pull
the old 65816 out of the PLCC socket?
There are PLCC chip pullers designed expressly for removing such chips from their sockets safely. They typically grab the chip by diagonally opposite corners and pull straight up. -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."