AIM 65 lives

[Tony Duell]

> Last some brands and styles of scokets really didn't stand the 
> test of time. I have a few NS* boards I've desocketed and soldered 
> the chips directly in becuase of that.

I normally replace such sockets with good turned-pin (I think you call 
them machined-pin) ones. I've yet to have had a contact failure on one of 
those. 

If the ICs are rare/likely to need to be removed in the future (EPROMS, 
etc) then I'd want to keep them in sockets.

-tony