Presumably the major issue with bent pins on an IC is that it makes maintenance more difficult in the future? Would it be possible to fit a low profile socket, then fit another socket (pins bent out) and put the IC in that? Only the sandwich socket is modified and the RAM chips are easily swappable...
Thank for the links. I was wondering how using one of these to get 32K would work in relation to your mod process? Presumably the same tracks would be cut. Would the part where you reconnect the two cut tracks be connected directly to a pin on the vLA? https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/download/file....
I've done a few of these (and have done a lot of fiddling with various configurations and written a lot of emails bothering Mr Ingley with silly questions) and there is no need to cut any tracks, just bend out 4 pins (1,2,23,26) of the 32k RAM chip and connect to address lines A11 to A14. Note that...
The difficult factor here is predicting quantity, on small runs the price is X amount, if i order double, it comes down, if i order 5 times the amount, the price comes close to 50% Yeah, I’m aware that the order volume affects the unit cost. Have you posted on the other Sinclair / ZX Spectrum forum...