2 Sep
2005
2 Sep
'05
6:33 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:27:19 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Somehow I had guessed for authenticity purposes, you would be
campaigning for people to _preserve_ these sockets. Nightmare-grade
unreliable sockets are part of the history of the particular machines
they were installed in.
I guess you don't view it as an issue. Were machine-pin sockets even
_available_ when some of the early machines were produced?
Note- I didn't make the above comments to start a flame war.
Greetings Dave,
Possibly helpful hints from a friend not on this list:
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Subject: Re: Intel MDS Series II IOC question (fwd)
Hi George,
My first thought is SCANBE.
My second thought is SCANBE.
My third thought is... can you guess?
I assume these are cheap and useless IC sockets.....
Replacing the
SCANBE sockets with AUGAT barrel type on the older
IOC's has always solved my 5 beep test problems. Making sure all
socketed components
are properly seated in reliable sockets. The manuals, flow charts,
etc...
This reminds me of my Whitechapel MG1. The 'expensive' devices, CPU
(32016), FPU (32081), I/O processor (68121 IIRC), etc were all in
turned-pin sockets. The EPROMs were in cheap-n-nasty sockets.
Replacing the latter with turned-pin so;ved a lot of problems...