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Article #16796Re: Vector wire pencils (and wire-wrap, and ScotchFlex)
From: John Paul Morrison
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:00
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:00
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In article <PHR.93Jan5182317@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes: >In article <1993Jan5.035617.1065@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes: > > I think ScotchFlex is *great* for prototyping and debug. It is FAR > more convenient than WW for debug -- because it's a lot easier to > change. Of course I'd never ship a product, not even a > one-of-a-kind, that used it -- but that's not what it's for. > > Yes, the cost is relatively high on a per-DIP-socket basis, but > everything except the wire is easily re-usable. ie you can pull > the wires off the back of a ScotchFlex board MUCH more easily than > you could pull wire-wrapped wires off of wrap posts. > >Ok, N different people have told us that stuff is great but expensive. >Now just how expensive is this stuff and where can I get some? > OK, so it's good, but just what *is* it? How does it work? Nobody I know is familiar with it, so can someone describe the system and the parts etc. -- __________________________________________________________________________ John Paul Morrison | University of British Columbia, Canada | Electrical Engineering | .sig file without a cause jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca VE7JPM | ________________________________________|_________________________________
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!jmorriso From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) Subject: Re: Vector wire pencils (and wire-wrap, and ScotchFlex) Message-ID: <1993Jan10.010010.20487@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <1993Jan3.004714.27542@softwords.bc.ca> <1993Jan5.035617.1065@cmkrnl.com> <PHR.93Jan5182317@napa.telebit.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:00:10 GMT Lines: 29