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- From: jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 16550AFN replacement for soldered-in 8250.
- Summary: soldering
- Message-ID: <122.21246@incc.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 18:27:27 GMT
- References: <715627191snx@crynwr.com>
- Organization: InCC.com Perwez Belgium
- Lines: 18
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- In article <715627191snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- > My serial port board has one socket, and one soldered-in 8250. I
- > didn't want to use the socket, because that means buying the line
- > drivers and external DB-25. I don't have the equipment for
- > desoldering a 40-pin IC. Wire-wicking the solder off each pin, while
- > an impressive feat, gets old fast. So, I got out the trusty dikes,
- > and clipped off the pins of the 8250, and discarded it. I didn't
- > desolder the pins even though it would have been easy at that point.
- > I just put my shiny new 16550AFN over the remaining 8250 pins and
- > soldered them together.
-
- Don't try this at home kids :-)
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