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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kenny Hanson wrote:

> would be able to engineer a socket8 to slot1 adapter.  Of course, I
> could be wrong :-)
> 
> I'm not 100% positive on this, but my guesstimate is no dice.  Slot 1 is
> completely 
> different than Socket 8 and requires a whole different kind of wiring;

  No.  Intel makes  a socket 8 to slot 1 adapter.  Socket 8 and slot 1 are
very similar.  Basically, it is small card that plugs into the slot 1,
with a socket 8 on it.

  I have not seen a slot 1 to socket 8 adapter.  Would be rather
cumbersome.

Tom