therapist: millipede DIP isn't real and can't hurt you
millipede DIP:
@whitequark the tighter pitch looks cute until you try to mash a desoldered one into a new board. Suddently the legs are everywhere. everywhere.
@whitequark is the joke here based on millipedes having two pairs of legs per segment?
@whitequark AFAIK, DIP-64 is as far as they go, and getting there was quite a manufacturing achievement.
The only other mass-marketed DIP-64 chip that I know of, off the top of my head, was the original 68000 (and, optionally, 68010 also came in DIP-64). I have heard of some private DIP-64 chips having been produced for avionics systems, but generally, by the time more pins became commonly needed, various sorts of PGAs and experiments like PLCC and SOJ became popular instead.
@whitequark YM2610 needs 12 pins per octave as was the fashion at the time
@whitequark Thinking about Amiga expansion boards that plug into the 68000’s DIP-64 CPU socket.
https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/ViewFile.aspx?id=279&fileId=1235
https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/CategoryList.aspx?cid=23
How high does that beast rev?
@whitequark looks even more intimidating with Mastodon cropping off both ends. You are left guessing just how how many legs it has.
@truh that leadframe is some nightmare stuff too