[sdiy] Trip to the Local Electronics Shop and Things SMD

[phillip m gallo]

Scott,

I have found that a 16 bit ISA protoboard is either very expensive (because
the vendor is maintaining the price that the board could fetch back in 1989)
or the opposite (when a smart vendor notices something isn't moving).

With all the Electronic Shops here in the LA area closing one by one, they
are buying each others stock as "salvage".  Usually i find that this stock
is bargain priced.  When Sandy's in the "Valley" closed i picked up two 16
bit AT protoboards for ~$8.00 US at my local electronic shop here in
Torrance (still had Sandy's SKU sticker).  AT protoboards are so large in
area that i bought them to cut down into smaller proto sheets.  Also i
picked up quite a few SMT protoboards such as you describe paying no more
than $9.00 ea.  These boards sell at our local Fry's Electronics for
$40-50.00 US.

Notably, the Velloman proto's are priced reasonably.

regards,
p


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Scott Gravenhorst
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:15 PM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: [sdiy] Trip to the Local Electronics Shop and Things SMD


I was at ITC (Chatsworth, CA) today looking for prototyping board for my
PCSYNTH project.  Oddly enough, I found a full size 16 bit ISA slot
prototype board - for $68.00....  Uh, no.  So I bought a piece of regular
etched stuff made by Velleman for $6.95 and I'll do my original idea of
using a defunct EIDE card for it's edge connector.

But I also spotted an SMD prototyping board.  I have very little details
because frankly I have no interest in SMD (being visually impaired, it's
hard enough to do through hole), however I shall describe what I saw:  A
strip of board with etched patterns for several, (5 or 6) SMD devices, it
looked like there were different patterns and numbers of pins, each pin has
an etched land out to a solder pad/hole.  I didn't look at the price, nor
can I give a manufacturer, I just didn't think to look at all that until I
was half way home and it was already too late.  But it looks like this
stuff exists for you people with SuperMan's eyeballs.

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