mdesscrapper wrote:
Now that we are talking about board types, I am seeing info that some gold finger cards can be upgraded to telco if heavy enough with ic's and flat packs or so it seems to me. If this is right do I need to take the bracket off to ensure that it goes to telco? Thank you for all responses.
Generally speaking that is a correct assessment.
The bracket is part of pricing in gold finger cards. It would be considered “junk” weight in telco. Taking a voodoo for example, many would make telco without the bracket but add that massive iron (not steel) bracket to it and it’s not going to make the jump.
Very high end memory expansions for old Apple Macs are like that too. In a sense. Remove the transformer you have a populated telco card. Leave it on it just barely gets gold finger card.
Junk is any material with a lower value than the board class.
Another example is 8-bit computer motherboards. Most get peripheral rather than large (old) socket because the power system is integrated into the main board.
If you have something you think should be telco minus this or that post a photo on a new thread and one of us will take a look at it.