[BC] More Moseley remote control stories...

[PeterH5322]

>Those "IC socket on a strip" things were made by Molex, I think. I tried
>using them for a while, but the lack of a plastic body made the spring
>contact with the chip leads get pretty bad after a while. Also, for a
>while, TI was silver plating their leads. The silver would tarnish and
>you'd have a bad connection. Not quite today's surface mount stuff!

I replace sockets with so-called "screw machine pin" sockets.

The price per pin is more than 1.5 cents, but who wants their station to 
depend upon the reliability of an el-cheapo 24-cent socket?