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[RETRO Innovations]

I think Mark's point is more direct when one considers that at least 
some 6809s are soldered directly to the board.

Popping a new '09 into a socketed Coco is a minor annoyance ("Where did 
I stash thoses extra '09s, anyway") or a larger irritant if you're at a 
show ("Hey, cna you spare an '09 for a friend?"), but it's a major issue 
if your '09 is not socketed.

Of course, the contrary in the group will counter that the non-socketed 
'09 owner will have to deal with the annoyance of unsoldering now or 
later, and later may never happen, which is fair, but if you run the 
odds and fail, Murphy will make sure you're broken when you have no 
soldering iron and no one to help.

Jim

P.S. Of course, this comes from a guy who, so far, has been too lazy to 
protect his '09 on his Coco3 and regularly abuses it.