6 Oct
2001
6 Oct
'01
5:46 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, "the other place"... I almost planned a trip to Cambridge that
summer to meet Stephen Hawking, but it turned out that he was suffering
>
> I wanted to bang out a quick thing involving bussed lines (an LED
> display for a Dragon's Lair game, if you're curious)...
Veroboard is (used to be?) a trade name used by
BICC-Vero. The generic
name for what you are looking for is 'Stripboard'
That's _just_ the kind of info I was looking for; thanks.
Getting it that wide is going to be hard (at least
over here). The
largest common sizes are designed to stand upright in a 3U card frame, so
about 4". I think 4" by 6" (approx) is
a fairly common size.
I found some strip board this weekend at an Akron-area electronics
shop (www.philcap.com). It was scorchingly expensive; but these guys
have, among other things, a Vector-brand continuous-wrap wire-wrapping
tool on the wall for $75! They _do_ have some stuff that's cheap, but,
as we've recently discussed about other shops, they don't seem to
mark down prices to move slow inventory.
I went to
school in England in 1985 - New College, specifically...
Ah,, the_other_place (sorry, couldn't resist...) :-) from pneumonia and I wouldn't have been able to
meet him if I'd gone.
I _did_ get to read his books at the Bodlean Library (I
was taking
Physics and Calc back home; he uses symbols I'd never even _heard_ of ;-)
-ethan
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