11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
10:07 a.m.
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
ISTR that Josh mentioned that this was a wire-wrap
board.
I recall
some of the WW sockets of the day, ones marketed by TI, for
example,
were miserable things that also had the unhappy tendency
for the
contact "fork" to detach from the wire-wrap pin,
if the pin got
wiggled too much.
Ugh, I think I know the sockets of which you speak. Horrible.
It's funny, it seems that in the 70's, TI made simply the worst quality parts
imaginable. TI chips from this era are really prone to have corroded legs.
-Ian