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Bag full of YMF721-S

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Reply 20 of 23, by badmojo

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Weird science!

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Reply 21 of 23, by Tiido

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I underestimated the time it takes to prepare so many chips... I had to remove all excess solder so pins are properly flat underneath and that took a while plus all the chips were covered in flux to varying extents. Overnight soak in acetone made things clean and I could start to actually properly align the pins to allow reflowing. I used an old solder paste stencil for that, pushing pins into the openings to get them perfectly aligned. This took better part of today but I am finally done with all the preparative steps ~

Now I need to figure out how I'm going to actually test the chips... I have the test machine roughly usable but things are far from optimum. I'm not sure I'll get to do any testing today though, I have to actually set up some sound playback capability first 🤣

T-04YBSC, a new YMF71x based sound card & Official VOGONS thread about it
Newly made 4MB 60ns 30pin SIMMs ~
mida sa loed ? nagunii aru ei saa 😜

Reply 22 of 23, by badmojo

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That is truly a labour of love, I hope the majority are working.

I like the legs of of your desk BTW 😅

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Reply 23 of 23, by Trashbytes

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badmojo wrote on Today, 00:44:

That is truly a labour of love, I hope the majority are working.

I like the legs of of your desk BTW 😅

Perfect use for spare cases !

Even better if they are working PCs hooked up to a KVM switch !