Lots of sad goodbyes this year in the tech arena. Although Socket7 was the first PC I built with my own two hands, SocketA was how I grew to love it. *sniff*
"After years
of loving socket A platform, it’s time to say goodbye to all those nice
chipsets and motherboards based on it. AMD decided to pull the plug on
this one simply as it wants to make a big deal out of the Socket 754."