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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
Those IC's had a weird thermo problems.... The color would shift all over the place. Those were the brown plastic type.
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Back in the 80s at the RCA Sarnoff Lab< I used to work with someone who before that worked for Zenith, and he mentioned that the assembly line workers used to use a hammer of some sort to smack those ICs into their sockets. They made them stop doing that after reliability issues cropped up.