I occurs to me that sliding a piece of thin sheet-metal between the socket and
the board might not be a bad idea to protect against mishaps. Thin brass
stock that will do the trick can be bought at hobby shops and hardware stores.
With that in place underneath, one could hand-hold a fine hacksaw blade and
have a reasonably safe shot at it.
This occurred to me as well, however, I could not find anything thin
enough. The gap between the IC socket and the board is very small. You
would need a *very* thin metal strip.
While we're on the subject of GSX upgrades, is there anyone with a sped-up
ZipGSX that also logs to an Appletalk server? Even with the Appletalk delay
engaged, I'm finding that my desktop or application drops partially dead after
being left idle for a while. Mouse motion still works, but nothing responds
to button down. If I run GNO and leave it sitting at the prompt, I eventually
get a boxed message that the server has disappeared and things go dead.
I don't use Appletalk yet, but I hope to one day get Appletalk talking
to a Linux box via a Appletalk to ethernet bridge. It another project
I have filed away. ;-)
Do you only get the problems you mentioned when connected to an
Appletalk server?
<off_topic>
Speaking of GNO, I tried to get GNO working for the first time the
other weekend, and the latest version fails to work on my ROM3 IIgs
running on a CFFA. It gets to the login screen, I enter my username
and password, it displays the MOTD and then hangs indefinately.
Weirdly, if I switch back to an older kernel version, I can log in and
do stuff. I'll probably have more of a play around with it and if I'm
still stuck, I'll start a new thread in the nearly deceased c.s.a2.gno
group.
</off_topic>