16 May
2010
16 May
'10
11:53 a.m.
On 5/12/10 8:58 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
yes... and to make matters worse, some of the devices
were soldered
in without sockets too! I first suspected the 8279 display+keypad
controller and so I had to sacrifice it by cutting the pins off the
package and then desoldering each pin one at a time. Sadly, that did
not fix the problem and I wasted a nice ceramic packaged 8279 circa 1976.
Oh that SUCKS...Ceramic-packaged 8279s are, in my experience,
extremely rare. :-(
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL