3 Mar
2010
3 Mar
'10
6:53 p.m.
Oh, I don;'t maind. I am used to being a
'nobody'...
I didn't mean it as abrasively as it came across.
I guess that we're almost all nobodies on this bus. "EVERYBODY buys generic XT motherboards"
As you well know, I insisted on IBM motherboards becuase I have the
scheamtics for them...
"EVERYBODY buys their generic XT motherboards bare and populates them"
Only if I can get them truely bare and get to solder in every last IC and
resistor... eventually learned to not bother socketing resistor
packs and DIP
switches.
The problem with socketing DIP switches is that they tend to come out of
the socket when you flip them if you're not careful. On the other hand,
having just replaced sevral DIP swithces on plated-through-hole PCBs in
an HP2631 printer -- all the DIP swithces had failed...), I wish they'd
been in sockets...
-tony