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From: johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Packard Bell doesn't really exist (long)
Message-ID: <1410001@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 21:40:25 GMT
References: <1990Sep6.154721.12322@iwarp.intel.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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< As for why they'd do it..  Probably has to do with cost.  They might claim it
< makes for a more reliable system, but that's fairly silly.  Even the cost issue
< is silly, since sockets are not exactly that expensive.
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Sockets are refered to by some QA engineers as "self-fulfilling prophecies".
If you have good parts and a good solder process then they should not be
used except for user installed expansion. With some of the early micros it
was SOP to clean the leads of all socketed IC's whenever the system started
to flake out.


John Eaton
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