On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, A. Christoff Baumann wrote:
On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I am very unliklely to buy one, but in any case I
wouldn't consider a kit
unless it came totally unsoldered. That is no pre-mounted SMD parts...
Why would you want to go through the pain of stuffing your own SMD
parts?
Note that it wouldn't necessarily make the kit any cheaper. The cost of
stuffing the SMD parts was negligible compared to the total cost of the
kit.
It is also my understanding that the CPU and FDC are both completely
unavailable in anything but PLCC packages.
QFP packages
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