sad sad sad

[Justin Zygmont]

the pins were joined to the board, I had to cut them off with a straight 
screwdriver.  And what's interesting is that the chpi would never heat up, 
and was smaller than most cpu's on the whole board:)


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> 
> > > They were pin-compatible with late model 286s which meant they could get
> > > them to market quickly (by shoving them in 286 boards & makign sure the
> > > board didn't collapse under the higher clockspeed :)  I'm not sure if
> > > anyone actually upgraded a 286 to a 386SX (ie, replacing the chip) but it
> > > was supposed to be possible.
> >
> > not very likely, many boards back then weren't even socketed.  sx's were a
> > great value for the price.
> 
> Hehehe :)  How were the 286s afixed to the board?  Not anything as crude
> as solder I hope :)  Thinking back they seemed to be as integrated as any
> other component (the 386SX board I had for a while certainly was).
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

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