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How about this factoid:

I have shipped over 100,000 (yep, 100,000) ICs/transistors/semiconductors.

Exactly ∗2 parts∗ in ∗7 years∗ have "gone bad".

If IC sockets are all that great, then where are they? They are for EPROMS and
expensive ICs. They are not for 20 cent parts.

If any MOTM user wants me to replace a "bad IC" I'll do it for $5.

There are 100s of documented reports showing the IC socket ∗reduces system
reliability∗ by a HUGE number (like 10 TIMES).

Again, Apple III disaster........

Paul S.