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Re: Flakey ZipChip 8000



James Littlejohn wrote:

I had foreseen this on my Zip chips and on Accelerators for the GS. I
desoldered the CPU socket and installed a ZIF socket on both my IIe
and IIgs motherboards.

James,

It looks like the footprint of a full-height ZIF socket prohibits mounting it directly to the circuit board (MMU socket and decoupling cap in the way). Am I correct in assuming you sandwiched a machine-pin socket in between to raise it up some?

Steve