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First post, by NJRoadfan

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Looks like they made a ZIF Socket 1. It appears on this Asus EISA board: www.ebay.com/itm/200967313515

Prior to seeing that, I thought ZIF wasn't introduced until the Overdrive Socket 2 came out. Also it looks like Socket 6 boards were actually made as a picture of one now appears in the Wikipedia article!. Now to track one of them down. I don't even think those late production industrial boards have one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_6

What was the point of Socket 6 anyway?

Reply 1 of 3, by Old Thrashbarg

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What was the point of Socket 6 anyway?

There really wasn't a point to it, which is why nobody used it. I don't remember for sure, but I think the main difference was that Socket 6 was 3.3/3.45V only.

I also encountered another unusual 486 socket recently, in an old (and unfortunately dead) Dell board... it took the surface mount type 486SX chips. A regular QFP chip was inserted in the socket, and then a square frame was pressed in around the edges to hold the pins against the socket contacts.

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Cool Socket6.

What? No Hyper Memory?

"Will the highways on the internets become more few?" -Gee Dubya
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