Re: Desoldering valuable ICs friom junked boards

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article buggie@argo.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) writes...

>One of Appledom's modest but highly skilled "solder slingers" visited me
>last weekend, and taught me advanced desoldering techniques.  I can now
>desolder chips without damaging them.
> 
>Anyone out there dig around for scrapped motherboards?  Valuable Apple II
>chips sometimes appear on junked boards:
> 
>85C816    in Super Nintendo and also in some junked cash registers

    This would be of little use to an Apple IIgs owner, considering 
the SuperNintendo used the 65C816 in a PLCC package (the socket on
the GS motherboard only supports DIP). You could use it in a Zip GS
or TWGS, but since this 65C816 was clocked at 3.58 MHz, you would 
have to underclock very close to the speed of a stock IIgs. Hmmm,
they may even have been custom 65C816 CPU's come to think of it.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca