In article <00b401c8b119$94359f20$0102a8c0 at portajara>, "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> writes: I'm having a hard time visualizing how this works. The pins are on springs so that you press the board down and the pins retract? Are the pins just mechanical support or are they electrical contacts used for testing the board? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

In article <020801c8b14d$2aae18f0$0102a8c0 at portajara>, "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> writes: It sounded like such an odd name, I didn't think there'd be a page on wikipedia for it :-). But now that I've read through that and your response (thanks, btw), I get it now. The pins are positioned in predetermined places to match test points on the circuit under test. What strikes me as so odd about these items on govliquidation is that the "test points" appear to be a uniform grid across a large area. I guess that's what you need to diagnose a fault in something like a memory board: its a large, regular grid of memory chips, so you need a large regular grid of test points to find the fault. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>