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

[rdrake]

http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net:  beat ya to it...

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>From: cheater00 at gmail.com
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:20:24
>
>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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>>
>>
>> Harry Bissell & Nora Abdullah 4eva
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