Date   : Mon, 06 Dec 1999 18:20:05 +0000
From   : "B.E.Newsam" <ben@...>
Subject: Re: Removing ROMs from Issue 7 board

In message <991206155118@...>, Jonathan Graham Harston
<jgh@...> writes
>Never use one of those.  They are the worst bit of sales brainwashing
>outside Microsoft.
> 
>To use them you clip it over the IC.  You then /try/ to gently pull the IC
>out.  The major flaw is that as the IC comes loose you progressively have
>less and less control over the thing as it's the friction you work against
>is the friction you are trying to remove.  In many cases the IC will come
>loose so suddenly that you end up with massive pin damage.

As with any tool, a little thought and care will enable you to use it
properly.
-- 
Ben