Semi-OT: Wanted - Vacuum Tube Protyping Boards
Bill Richman wrote:
>A friend of mine is getting heavily into building radios, digital clocks
>(using nixie tubes and/or miniature vector displays), etc. from tubes.
>I've been thinking that some of those nifty prototyping boards like we
>used in high school would be great for him to use for testing new designs.
>The ones I used had a base made of clear plastic with an array of
>holes in the top which lead in sets of 5 or so to a common set of metal
>contacts. There were dozens of sets of contacts on each board. The tubes
>were mounted in sockets on small squares of PC board with traces leading
>to pins along the edges. These pins would plug into holes on the base,
>and you would plug wires into the other holes on the same contact strip to
>connect something to that pin. There were also inductors, variable caps,
>pots, etc. on small boards. Any idea where I might be able to buy
>something like this setup these days?
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Were these called something like Devry boards?
Received on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 13:46:00 GMT
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