> > One recalls those execrable low-profile cheap sockets from TI in the > early 70s. Horrible stuff.
Those were about the worst! > Aren't in fact, all wirewrap (board+pin) board sockets machine-pin? I > don't recall seeing one that wasn't. Given the great track record of > wire-wrapped designs that says something, surely. I have certainly seen, and may even still have, some formed-pin (i.e. not turned pin) wire-wrap DIL sockets. I have no intention of every using them though! -tony