At 12:40 PM 2/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

Beg, borrow or otherwise get ahold of a desoldering station with a good
pump and controlled-temperature tip. It will make short work of this.
They cost maybe $1000 new. I've had bad experience with the cheaper
Weller ones.

Best regards,

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