On Thu, 23 May 1996, John Payson wrote:

> Yeah, them PICs are really something.  The only ways I've managed to destroy
> 'em are either:
>
> [1] mechanical wear on the legs cripples them

But isn't the first thing one does with an expensive CERDIP part to place
it into a nice machined socket, like these Mill-Max parts I have the '73s in?

Actually, I'm sure that this will fail for a sufficently fast part, but
how fast is too fast?  The '73 is perfectly happy, but I'm only clocking
it at 4MHz 'cause that's the design target.