Altair 8800b received

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:53 PM


>> Just in case you are unfamiliar it is best to take a pair of vise grips 
>> and
>> break up the bad S100 connectors.  After that you can remove the pins one
>
> Agreed. The backplane is much more valuable than the connectors...
>
> In some cases, though, you can remove individual pins by melting the
> solder and pushing them out.. And then put a new pin, taken from a
> similar connector, in its place. I've done this on edge connectors,
> header plugs, etc. Worth doing if the replacement connectors are hard to 
> get.
<snip>
> -tony

The S100 connectors are available, Todd Fischer just finished checking out 
the quality of new sockets.  Before buying any check with Todd to find out 
which are best.

Imsai plated through the holes on their Motherboards.


Randy
www.s100-manuals.com