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- From: sct@beta.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink)
- Subject: Re: Zero Insertion Force (ZIP) sockets
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.142845.20793@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <Bz9Kru.4Hz@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:28:45 GMT
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- ZIF sockets are not new, having been around for at least 10 years. The
- early ones were used in PROM programmers so that the parts could be easily
- inserted and programmed.
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- With the Intel Overdrive upgrade CPU approach some manufacturers decided to
- put ZIF sockets on their motherboards to make the upgrade easier. Believe
- me, it is easier. We recently did an upgrade on a non-ZIF motherboard and
- ended up removing the motherboard from the chassis in order to insert the
- new CPU chip.
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- Steve Tenbrink
- sct@lanl.gov
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