[sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs

[Doug Terrebonne]

Well at least you didn't step on one of those first gen Motorola 68000s, those 
things were huge! Anyone know of a bigger sized DIP?

Doug 
syntparts.com

----- Original Message ----
> From: Chris Strellis <Chris.Strellis at crystalvision.tv>
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 4:10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs
> 
> > Heh, there are only two kinds of DIYers, those who've stepped barefoot
> > on a DIP
> > IC and those that will...
> 
> Yep, stepped on an up turned EPROM. 28 pins of pain in the heel of my
> foot. I even had to get a screw driver to lever it out of my foot!  I
> should have put a ZIF there.
> 
> At least I don't forget anymore...must be the Read Only Memory
> capability I now have ;)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Synth-diy mailing list
> Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy
>