[sebhc] [Fwd: ANSWER: General Comments from Mouser website.]

[Walter Moore]

The era of your H8 motherboard pretty much determined if it had gold or tin
plating.  I remember some propaganda from Heath about how their accelerated
testing showed tin to be as good as gold.  I also remember many H8 users
having to replace all edge connectors in their machines.  I was one of them.
Of the four H8s I have here, two are tin, two are gold.

At least we can get both parts...

..walt

-----Original Message-----
From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of Scott LaBombard
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 3:30 PM
To: sebhc at sebhc.org
Subject: Re: [sebhc] [Fwd: ANSWER: General Comments from Mouser website.]

Dwight ...

Without hauling out one of my H8's to confirm ...I believe that the
stock motherboard uses gold pins.

I assumed that Carroll provided the correct part number  ...which
would seem to confirm that belief.

Otherwise, I agree with your comments. That's why I mentioned
using tin contacts as a last resort (if at all)...


Scott




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