MOTM

> Apple III was a disaster do to its design and running three traces 
> between dip legs.  The socketed Apple II was no disaster at all.

Speaking as a service tech at The Byte store for old Apple IIs/II+s/IIe's 
that's a false statement. Apple used some of the absolute worst sockets 
they could've used in terms of reliability. Our #1 problem (next to the 
alignment problems with the II* series drives), was intermittent 
behaviors, often "fixed" by removing all chips, cleaning the sockets/legs, 
and reseating. And after removing all the sockets on my IIe machine (which 
I still have today) and soldering them down, the computer never gave me 
another bit of trouble.

-->Neil

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Neil Bradley             "I've got a fever and the only prescription is MORE
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