Flakey ZipChip 8000

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-xpq-this>]

  To: Steven Hirsch
  Re: Flakey ZipChip 8000
  By: Steven Hirsch to comp.sys.apple2 on Sat Feb 14 2009 09:53 pm

 > This thing may not even have one more round of insertion left before pins
 > start breaking off, so I'm looking for advice on solving the intermittant
 > problem and mounting it permanently in... something.  What have folks done
 > with these things to get around contact problems?  Is there life after broke
 > pins?

Mine is in a ZIF socket that I got from Henry @ ReactiveMicro. The ZIF can be
soldered to the mobo if you want to go to the trouble. I didn't at the time...
so I tried to piggy the ZIF into the existing socket. Turns out, it was too
loose so, it went into a pin socket, and it went into the mobo's socket.

Now, I have this weird looking tower - Zip, ZIF, Socket, Socket combo... and
surprisingly everything still works.

Someday, I'll have that ZIF mounted directly. My advice to anyone with a
ZipChip -- use a ZIF to protect your pins.

Sean Fahey
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