Wasn't the idea of a pin adapter on the LPC for ensuring that you can have you rchip on and off easily to test connections on the adapter anyway?
If I wanted to check the points on the chip (maybe I should just know how to solder in the first palce and I wouldn't have to do so) wouldn't it have been easier to either solder wires directly to the LPC and then to the pin adapter, and let it lay somewhere in the case? That way one could move the chip on the x, y & z axes, as long as the wire's tension didn't prevent it from twisting.
Development is great, and all; but wouldn't the efforts be more aptly used towards furthering some other venue?
There's a reason they don't make OS/2 anymore.
-Splitch