socketed
Adjective
Meaning
Having a socket.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Ewart Oakeshott has proposed an alternative description of the weapon as a crescent shaped socketed axe.
On the IBM AT, that was a 40-pin socketed device, while some manufacturers used an EPROM version of this chip which resembled an EPROM.
The Duron was a lower-cost and limited version of the Athlon (64KB instead of 256KB L2 cache) in a 462-pin socketed PGA (socket A) or soldered directly onto the motherboard.
The casing can also be opened up (voiding the warranty), all larger chips are socketed rather than being TH SMD soldered directly to the motherboard, so they can be replaced by hand.
The Amiga 500 also sports an unusual feature for a budget machine, socketed chips, which allow easy replacement of defective chips.
When it comes to the subject of updating the firmware to a new version, a typical procedure until the mid 1990s, was to replace a storage medium containing firmware, usually a socketed ROM.