weird technology Re: [sdiy] cloning, copying, copyrights

[cheater cheater]

Harry,
Let's try making (up) a synth with as much weird technology as possible.
My votes: eyelets and old-style synth keyboard contacts made out of
hard wire. And knobs the same size (and material and kind and model
number :P ) as they use on gas ovens now. And lots of light bulbs! Who
needs resistors?
Don't forget about canned transistors and we're on the right track.
And of course last but not least: the whole circuit board has to be
out of fortified cardboard.

D.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:10 PM,  <harrybissell at wowway.com> wrote:
> LOL... yeah they were called 'eyelets' and they are a world of trouble.
>
> OTOH I remember an early ad that said
> "Tired of PTH troubles ??? .... try EYELETS"
>
> Last gasp for a dying technology.  We used to use them where flexible
> wires entered the PCB, and for calibration points (you soldered in
> additional resistors or capacitors...)
>
> H^) harry
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:23:13 -0500, Tim Daugard wrote
>> > Well.. at one time you might have patented the 'plated through hole' or
>> > some
>> > feature like that... otoh it might have been called 'obvious'...
>>
>> Military equipment used rivet through hole 50+ years ago. The first
>> equipment I worked on had copper? rivets through PCB holes. At least
>> once I had to repair a circuit by fixing solder joints that had
>> broken on either side of the boaRD.
>>
>> Tim Daugard
>> AG4GZ 30.4078N 86.6227W Alt: 12 feet above MSL
>> http://home.sprintmail.com/~daugard/synth.htm
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~synthfred/h_toctop.htm (Fred's online
>> edition)
>>
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