Patrick was kind enough to send me a bare-board memory card. Well, actually not completely bare, just lacking the RAM chips themselves (since I have a small supply of those already courtesy of Paul).

It will be a while before I rerig my toaster oven to solder on the RAM chips, but right now I just have to say: this looks MUCH simpler to attach to the empeg than I'd expected. The through-hole solder points are extra large, perhaps double the diameter of a "normal" pin-size through-hole. This makes it very easy to get the soldering iron tip into the opening to ensure good flow/connection.

I think these boards will work out just fine for anyone who installs them.

Cheers