It's
slower than using an extender card, of course, but typically I only
 need 2 or thre 'goes' (pull board, solder on half a dozen wires, put it
 back, test) to find the fault. 
 Can I fly you out here to fix mine? :)
 > =tony 
 
I'm closer,  it'd probably be cheaper.  :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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