Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

From: Jack Peacock <peacock_at_simconv.com>
Date: Fri Mar 13 19:40:35 1998

>Well, obviously you use the right tools :-). Attacking any
computer board
>with a sheet-metal iron is going to do some damage. But I don't
>understand why a PC motherboard is any more fragile than (say)
a board
>from a minicomputer, workstation, or whatever.


Well, for one thing old boards used .1 inch traces, now with
surface mount it's .05 or .025. I don;t know about you, but my
hand (wasted from advanced age and hard living) isn't steady
enough to solder a surface mount IC.
        Jack Peacock
Received on Fri Mar 13 1998 - 19:40:35 GMT