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Re: Flakey ZipChip 8000
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