At first I thought "That's no sweat, these are 18C442's (ouch!) so they're
basically trash now anyway" but thinking further, the program burned will
support a different board quite well, so I would like to save the chips if
possible.

C

>     "What is the safest and surest way to remove
>      these chips?"
>
> We used to clip each IC pin with cutters - then remove
> each pin individually. This was on multilayer
> boards where we needed to replace a bad chip.
>
> Of course, the chip gets destroyed in the process ...

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