[sdiy] My First Synth Project (more Geezer Stuff....)

[Scott E.]

I'm glad to see that I am not the only one to have used pine boards as a 
breadboard. I even used nails as tie points on one circuit having run 
out of bakelite terminal strips.

Scott E.

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

> Not bad.  I wish I had saved some of the stuff I built as a kid.  I
> remember doing *real* breadboard stuff.  I never actually used a true
> breadboard though, but the projects were built on pine boards.  Porcelain
> tube sockets screwed down, bakelite terminal strips for resistors and
> caps.  Even transistor stuff was done that way, well before I'd heard of
> "printed circuit boards", I would actually use wood screws and washers as
> connection points, ah the beauty of fahnstock clips.