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On 14 Jan 2025 03:42:40 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:

> In ~1982, my EE senior project in college was a small board with a 68k
> on it to go in a box that could whole up to a whole 1MB of RAM.  Of
> course, the 68k was in a socket.  However, the socket was bad.  Prying
> the 64-pin large DIP CPU from the socket was nothing compared to
> unsoldering each of socket pin from the board, then cleaning the holes
> enough to install a new socket.

ZIFs are nice but were seldom used in commercial boards in that era. 40 
pin devices were bad enough.