Subj : Re: Looking for BBS Client suggestions
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed May 01 2024 11:59:56

 AK> Wild to think how swapping the UART chip used to be (sometimes) so
 AK> easy, and here I am on a laptop that I can't even add RAM to!
 AK> Progress, I guess.  ;)

 pF> Those little cheap vinyl zipper tool cases always came with a chip
 pF> extractor and a chip inserter tool, wonder if they finally got rid of
 pF> those. My first computer had DIP RAM and I replaced the UART, after that
 pF> it was all DIP/DIMM/SIMM and so on...

Hahaha yes those little toolkits always included those tools, I wonder how many got used in the past 30 years.


Chris/akacastor


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