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- From: schao@monet.uwaterloo.ca (Stewart Chao)
- Subject: Zero Insertion Force (ZIP) sockets
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:28:41 GMT
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- Zeos, Intel and a few other companies have a lot of adds about
- Zero Insertion Force (ZIP) sockets, and how easily it is to
- upgrade change a CPU chip if it is mounted in a ZIP socket.
- I've seen and use one and was amazed about how neat it was,
- but I would like to known how "new" ZIP sockets are.
-
- Last Friday, I was working late I opened up an obselete NEC
- 286 Pomermate 2. Just to look around at the internals. I notice
- the 286 chip's mount look at a ZIP socket. (I could see a handle
- bar.) This got me very curious, I had to remove a board to get
- at the CPU but when I did the mount did turn on to be a ZIF
- socket. (Or at least work like one).
-
- So how new or old is the idea of ZIF sockets? The machine is
- at least 3 or 4 years old.
-
- Stewart
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