In article <f4eb766f0602030407o3dac064amaac33e0f6fb09e0 at mail.gmail.com>,
    Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>  writes:
  On 2/3/06, Tim Shoppa <shoppa_classiccmp at
trailing-edge.com> wrote:
  I suspect you mean "PC board" :-(.  Try
building a radio on a breadboard!
 Screw down the transformers, octal sockets, etc., just like they did 50
 years ago. 
 Two years ago, I built a COSMAC Elf right out of the pages of the
 1977-1978 Popular Electronics articles, on perfboard, down to the 1861
 'Pixie' chip.  The most modern facet of my implementation was that I
 couldn't find a 74L00 for the clock divider, so I happen to have a
 1970s TTL part in there at the moment.
 Some of those old projects can be hard to find parts for (especially
 the RTL-logic-based projects from the early 1970s), but there's plenty
 of material to work from there.
 -ethan
  
Is the Popular Electronis article scanned online?  This sounds kinda
cool!  And a nice way to get a little experience without damaging
anything hard to find.
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