[Coco] IDE interfaces

[Arthur Flexser]

That seems like a problem whose effects would be dwarfed by the fact that
tin oxidizes and gold doesn't.

Art

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:06 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe their issue with gold is that it will wear off quicker (since it
> is a
> > softer metal) from repeated insertion/extraction cycles.
>
> My take-away from the Facebook thread was two metals making contact
> have different reactivity.
>
> So if you have tin contacts on the socket, and gold contact on the PCB
> you get hight reactivity than tin/tin or gold/gold.
>
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