I wanted ZIF sockets for three reasons things: I want to be able to swap out chips (and their fake replacements) easily to test compatibility and stuff like tha

I wanted ZIF sockets for three reasons things: I want to be able to swap out chips (and their fake replacements) easily to test compatibility and stuff like that. The chance of breaking the pins off of the vintage chips is very real, especially with repeated pulls/pushes. They also put a more constant pressure on the pins, so they _should_ have less of "popping out" the chips, which the wipe-contact type of sockets do a bit sometimes. The low-profiles I wanted for two reasons, aesthetics, I like how they look, comared to the traditional tall green/cyanish giant monstrocities, and practical: Some of my fake devices are tall, and I risk running out of room in the C64c case (also true for chips below the keyboard), but also, the traditional zif sockets have a much larger footprint than a standard dip socket, and so they actually don't fit on my C64, they collide with decoupling caps AND with each other in one axis (I think it was the PLA and SID that couldn't coexist). So, I opted for the waaahy more expensive low-profile ones