Re: Flakey ZipChip 8000

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

James Littlejohn wrote:
> On Feb 15, 10:28 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> A picture is worth a thousand words...
> http://8bitsystem.com/AppleII/ZIPCHIP1.JPG

Ack.  So, the ZipChip _does_ clear the lever on the low-profile socket??  What 
vendor is that from?  According to the dimensions that Jameco has online, it 
looked to me like the chip would overhang the lever on an Aries socket.