[sdiy] Ten new student projects up! OTA comment

[Oren Leavitt]

Months later...
Harry's skeleton, the solderless breadboard, and the BBD sit covered 
with seagull poop.
A big wood crate floats ashore.
It reads "Contents: 1 ACME Complete Electronic Shop, Bob Pease approved! 
- No BBDs! No Solderless bread boards! No computers to lie to you!"
Another crate floats ashore:
"Contents: 1 ACME Lanterman Drive to power your ACME Complete Electronic 
Shop"

harry bissell wrote:
> If the breadboard was one of those "white nylon slabs-o'-trouble" it got 
> less than
> it deserved !!!
> 
> If I were to be marooned on a desert island with a BBD or a solderless 
> breadboard
> ~or~ a BBD... what would I take ???
> 
> ...poison !!! :^P
> 
> H^) harry
> 
> (and nobody thought the 'lanterman drive' was funny, eh ??? where's your 
> 1950's sci-fi spirit ??? :^)
> 
> Aaron Lanterman wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Paul Perry wrote:
>>
>>> What I always see above 1mA, is smoke.
>>> Or at least, an ex-OTA.
>>
>>
>> It is true that a large number of 13700s were harmed over the course 
>> of this semester. Each group using OTAs toasted at least one.
>>
>> There was also an SSM2210 that had its bottom part melted into a 
>> breadboard...
>>
>> - Aaron
>>
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