Re: Circuit Implementation in Academia

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 08:28

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In article <13260@cup.portal.com> rrr@cup.portal.com (Roger Rock Rosner) writes:
>o Are PCBs really all that popular in academia?  (I suspect more
>  wire wrapping and protoboarding is used.)

Not to be cynical or anything, but wire-wrapping is popular anywhere where
you can find dirt-cheap labor.  Students, for example.  Wire-wrapping anything
complex yourself is for the birds unless you've got at least a semi-auto
wire-wrapping machine ($$$$).
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"God willing, we will return." |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
-Eugene Cernan, the Moon, 1972 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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