Date   : Tue, 31 May 2005 20:19:47 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: Zif thingy

In article <06a001c5660b$f5a594b0$0400a8c0@...>,
   Matt Cocker <themicrouser@...> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> We get everywhere don't we.
>
> I do not have a spare Zif socket (that is what the suppliers called them) 
> but I can tell you that it connects to one of the spare sockets on the 
> motherboard so that you can swap roms (with the machine switched off!).

Zero insertion force socket.

They can be fairly easily made with the following
 1x ZIF socket
 1x ribbon cable
 1x crimp on IDC to DIL28 header
 1x decoupling cap

A small piece of stripboard is also handy just to give some more surface
area with which to glue to socket into the ashtray,
Sprow.