Atari 2600+ Updated cartridge socket giveaway.

[sramirez2008]

Ben from Plaion is giving away Updated Cart Socket IO PCBs in the following thread: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/371614-updated-cartridge-socket-giveaway/

[TrekMD]

I was not aware of a change to the cart socket.  What exactly happened?

[sramirez2008]

6 minutes ago, TrekMD said:

I was not aware of a change to the cart socket.  What exactly happened?

With the original socket, just by inserting certain carts, you could bend the pins quite easily. It happened to me with one of my Zellers carts. However Ben took care of it for me and others, free of charge. Excellent customer service.

Here’s the thread that initially started the discussion.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359317-broken-already/

[TrekMD]

Cool.  I haven't had the issue but should I have the problem, I will be sure to reach out!