On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:50:53 -0800, Larry Dewey wrote:

>At 09:25 AM 1/27/99 -0000, you wrote:
>>Perhaps some of the newcomers might find this useful.
>>
[SNIP]
>>
>>A poor man's ZIF socket with the added advantage that should you
>>have a catastrophe and break a leg then its only on a cheap DIL
>>socket not the more expensive PIC itself.
>>
>>Brian
>>Brian E Jones
>>Centre for Java Technology
>>IBM HURSLEY
>>
>>
>
>I use this same idea for plugging PICs into my solderless breadboard.
>Works great.
>
>Larry
>

I have tried this trick as well, but sadly, with the PIC's
seated in machined pin sockets, they are too "tall" to fit
in my Datarase II, so I am back to no sockets.... :-(

It was such a great idea too!

Dan