group buy for homebrew CPUs?

Someone wrote: There was a lot of resistance to using PCBs, even in the transistor age. IIRC, the cheap Japanese transistor radios were all PCB, but you could still buy a good US-made Automatic Radio model that featured a steel chassis with transistors in sockets, carefully handwired together. For years, printed (or rather, etched circuit) boards were a sign of inferior quality. Things generally got better when the military stared used them, because there was a demand for reliability. The change in soldering techniques has made a big difference. I've got old equipment from the early 60's that has every trace completely covered in gobs of solder with oceans of old flux between the traces. They work, but you wonder why. I think the big problem was a shift in thought. Anyone who learned to solder back in the handwired days remembers being told over and over again that "Solder does not make a mechanical connection". Or in other words, good wiring practice demanded that a wire be mechanically attached to its terminal before solder was applied. Along come PCBs and what's holding everything together? Solder. In fact, solder makes a great mechanical connection--just ask any trumpet player why his instrument doesn't fall to pieces when he picks it up--and it's the selfsame 70/30 alloy that electronics assembly uses. Cheers, Chuck