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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

oh yeah. I love old designs that do helpful things like put all the chips in sockets.

put the SRAM in a socket, why not? is anyone ever gonna change it out? probably not!
20 Apr 2023 at 20:06 | Open on digipres.club
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sxpert
@foone well, still a good idea for maintenance
20 Apr 2023 at 20:09 | Open on mastodon.sxpert.org
Andrew
Sekoia

@foone I wonder what the reason for that is. Ease of design? Faster prototyping/easier to mess around with? Since some stuff needs to be socketed, make all of it socketed so we don't need to think about it at all?

20 Apr 2023 at 20:10 | Open on fosstodon.org
StarTracker
Allen Very Serious Versfeld

@foone So... do you think this was just about repairability, or were they maybe worried about heat-damage to the part if they soldered ir directly?

20 Apr 2023 at 20:12 | Open on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
Kevin P. Fleming

@uastronomer @foone Or an unacceptably high percentage of bad parts in the supply.

20 Apr 2023 at 20:50 | Open on mastodon.km6g.us
Waterluvian

@foone in 10th grade electrical engineering I was trained to do this to reduce the likelihood of frying a chip when soldering. But then in the rest of my life I was trained to save a few cents per unit.

20 Apr 2023 at 20:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Stewart Russell

@foone those are the *nice* sockets, too

20 Apr 2023 at 20:19 | Open on xoxo.zone
NRoach44

@foone Clearly it's to help you dump the ram ;)

20 Apr 2023 at 20:49 | Open on mastodon.social
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