Re: Flakey ZipChip 8000

[David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>]

On Feb 15, 1:53 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an 8Mhz. ZipChip that's been out of service for a while due to general
> silliness and I decided to give it another shot today.  This is one of the
> units with cheap, thin tin-plate pins that bend if you look at them too hard.

I must have the other sort with thick leads. When I first got it I
took one look at the pins and thought that the motherboard socket
would never be the same after receiving them so I attached a
sacrificial (NON-machine pin) socket to the Zip Chip. It never caused
me any problems. Sorry to hear your unit is troublesome.