I can't attach the heatsink/fan to my new (to me) socket 7 motherboard because the tabs are broken off.

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Wow. I don't remember having a board-mount retention mechanism for a CPU cooler before like LGA 775, but maybe such a thing existed for socket 7. Are there four holes in a rectangle around the socket?

Nope, just the socket and its broken off tabs. The socket is soldered to the motherboard too.

The first board mount (actually through-board case mount) I recall seeing were HP socket 478. That horror-show of a socket also saw many plastic retention clip implementations that had a tendency to get brittle and crack. Socket 423 (which came before) had the same plastic junk mounts.

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