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From: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Broken SIMM sockets
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.103924.5690@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Jan 91 10:39:24 GMT
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Reply-To: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
Organization: Institute of Education University of London
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(Andrew Lee) writes:
>
>I have a clone 386 25 MHz motherboard with cache, and on two of the eight
>SIMM sockets (both in the first bank of four), one of the plastic tabs at
>the ends which hold the SIMMs in place have broken off.  They will no

I managed to break one on a MAC. Luckily, it was new,
and the user got a warranty replacement mother board.

My view is that those clips are the worst design feature I have seen
since the standard implementation of the space bar (also has plastic
clips prone to breakage).