In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, George Herzog wrote:

Are you having touble with getting an interface?

I have purchased SOIC-20 adapter boards and cut them in half with a small hacksaw.  Then I finish the sides with emery paper.  The result is two boards to adapt SOIC-8 to 0.1pin spacing.

This worked out nicely from me because the SOIC-8 devices are light sensors and I could not do the 'dead bug' trick.  In the 'dead bug' trick, you turn the Soic-8 upside-down and solder each lead to an empty 8 Pin DIP socket with some 30 guage wire wrap wire.

I am beginning to not fear surface mount.  I even was able to bridge a 0.1uf capacitor between Vss and Vdd on the halved adapter boards.

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