On Jan 30, 5:37 pm, Steve Murray wrote:
> Folks, just a quick one ...
> In a CoCo (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91) is the
> 6809 CPU normally soldered on to the main board, is is perchance it
> socketed?
> Cheers,
> mevets

I think it might have been socketed in the CoCo 1/2, but maybe only in
some of them. In the CoCo 3 it's soldered in, which I find very
anoying.

puritan_2076@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Jan 30, 5:37 pm, Steve Murray wrote:
>
>>Folks, just a quick one ...
>>In a CoCo (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91) is the
>>6809 CPU normally soldered on to the main board, is is perchance it
>>socketed?
>>Cheers,
>>mevets
>
>
> I think it might have been socketed in the CoCo 1/2, but maybe only in
> some of them. In the CoCo 3 it's soldered in, which I find very
> anoying.
>
Yes, fwiw after it was suggested that I post to comp.sys.tandy (doh!) it
turns out that they are soldered - which is a shame, but not unusual.
Cheers,
mevets