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

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Ian Fritz <ijfritz at comcast.net> wrote:
>At 06:05 AM 7/30/2008, harrybissell at wowway.com wrote:
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>>Its a "Solderless Breadboard"   :^P
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>>(which actually used to exist in the form of Fahenstock clips... long ago in
>>a far distant galaxy...)
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>Back when a breadboard was ... a breadboard! 

And I wonder how many of us (Ian?) have, in fact, used Fahnestock clips...  I know I did.
 I built things on chunks of scrap wood using wood screws and washers as connection
points.  I may actually have some Fahnestock clips around here buried somewhere.

And I remember my dad telling of _his_ days (born in 1920, and still here), where a
"breadboard" could easily have been a real breadboard as in a board used for cutting bread.



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