Re: Licensing soldering irons

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 15:12:47 -0700, Wayne Stewart wrote:

> I'm starting to think they should require a license and maybe waiting
> period before you can buy a soldering iron. A little while back I
> received
> a  dead ZipGS along with a bunch of cards. Someone had obviously tried
> to upgrade it. Most of the socket holes were burned large and a lot of
> traced
> were pulled off the card. Horrible mess.. After comparing it to a good
> card
> so I knew where all the traces went and wiring some traces back to the
> sockets, I tried it out and it worked. Was so happy I almost hugged the
> girlfriend. After a bit of thought I completed the narrow socket
> conversion, not that it
> does me a lot of good with that 7mhz processor. Anyone happen to have
> an old 8mhz 65816 they're not using?
>
>     Wayne

Wayne, what "narrow socket conversion" are you talking about. The reason I ask
is my Zip is forever loosing contact with the socket (and freezing up the
system). I can't solder the Zip direct to the board as the pin spacings are
different. So nu....


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