Socket Use

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As opposed to a 'line of assembly code' (aorry, couldn't resist). More seriously, there is, I will agree, one heck of a difference between prototyping and production. It makes no sense at all to socket most (if any) devices in most production boards. It _may_ make sense to socket rather more stuff in a prototype, or an experimental set-up. I suspect that most of the stuff we do here (related to classic computers, I am not talking about stuff list-members do as part of their jobs) would come under the latter category. If you think of that PDP8-clone board kit that's been discussed here recently, I would think that almost all (if not all) of thsoe will he hand-assembled. Pop each component in by hand and solder it. Nobody (I think) is going to use a pick-and-place machine and a wave solder machine on it. -tony