Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Cydrome Leader wrote:

over 20 years ago in the US, they sold some amazingly expensive liquid to
slosh on your DIP, SIPP and ZIP memory chips to make them not error out in
their sockets. The stuff was sold as being super magical and ultra
engineered magic. Just pressing stuff back into their sockets always
worked just fine for me.


Of course it did, if you didn't want a real fix. All that did was
wipe off enough oxidation for temporary operation, like wiggling the
knob on a dirty TV tuner when they were mechanical.

the real fix is not having dozens of chips in cheap sockets. Luckily those
days are over. we've moved onto exploding capacitors instead.