On Feb 15, 10:28=A0am, Steven Hirsch  wrote:
> James Littlejohn wrote:
> > I had foreseen this on my Zip chips and on Accelerators for the GS. I
> > desoldered the CPU socket and installed a ZIF socket on both my IIe
> > and IIgs motherboards.
>
> James,
>
> It looks like the footprint of a full-height ZIF socket prohibits mountin=
g it
> directly to the circuit board (MMU socket and decoupling cap in the way).=
 =A0Am
> I correct in assuming you sandwiched a machine-pin socket in between to r=
aise
> it up some?
>
> Steve

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