[sdiy] IC socket reliability

[J.D. McEachin]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Dave Brown wrote:

> At Tektronix in the 70's we used TI sockets which we thought were good, but
> it turns out they wiped on the edges of the pins, not the sides.  The edges
> of IC pins had poor tolerance so there were many reliability issues later
> on.

One of my techs found some of these in our Galaga machine a few months 
ago.  Unbelievable.  Never knew they made them like that!  Replacing them 
cleared up its intermittent spontaneous reset problems, of course.  Now we 
know to look for them!

Jeffrey