--- Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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...) :-)
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
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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Received on Sun Oct 07 2001 - 00:46:58 BST