Congrats on the bring up. I'll refrain from a soldering critique but will say that I always clean the tip before each solder, every 2 or 3 joints on sockets pins. Wet sponge is fine, metal scrunchy preferred, single swipe is good, this has worked for me for 50 yrs. Those old boards probably used 63/37 solder and desolder without adding. I solder Kester 63/37 at ~200C or 400F and hardly ever use flux.
In early DEC systems PIP was the Peripheral Interchange Program, and I'm pretty sure CP/M borrowed the idea, if not the details. It has some vaguely analogous functionality to dd from the UNIX world (and originally the IBM world).
Oh, we do have some nice equipment like that along those lines, I just need to use it during the day when the lab staff are around to access it. I wanted something of my own to use at home and during weird times.
Noone ever shows when the desoldering gun needs maintenance. Which seems to be all the darn time for me!!! :) Love your channel :)
Yeah not looking forward to the maintenance part... ;)
Thank you for your kind words!
@@Lantertronics When you get good at maintaining it, please make a tutorial, I would love to watch it! Have a wonderful summer.
Congrats on the bring up.
I'll refrain from a soldering critique but will say that I always clean the tip before each solder, every 2 or 3 joints on sockets pins. Wet sponge is fine, metal scrunchy preferred, single swipe is good, this has worked for me for 50 yrs.
Those old boards probably used 63/37 solder and desolder without adding. I solder Kester 63/37 at ~200C or 400F and hardly ever use flux.
The family that debugs TTL hardware together stays together.
In early DEC systems PIP was the Peripheral Interchange Program, and I'm pretty sure CP/M borrowed the idea, if not the details. It has some vaguely analogous functionality to dd from the UNIX world (and originally the IBM world).
My son saw PIP and immediately thought "is that a Python thing?" I later explained Python wasn't invented until 1995. ;)
Fun!
If Georgia Tech really cares about its reputation, they would equip you with proper state-of-the-art Weller or Hakko stations.
Oh, we do have some nice equipment like that along those lines, I just need to use it during the day when the lab staff are around to access it. I wanted something of my own to use at home and during weird times.
I have Weller and Hakko stations. My 2 Yihua stations hot air&soldering stations work just as well.