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    <p>Scotchflex is definitely a blast from the past!</p>
    <p>Nowadays with memory on-chip with the CPU and single pin serial
      interfaces commonplace, there just isn't demand need for such a
      prototyping aid.</p>
    <p>- Oren<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/27/20 6:58 PM, Doug Jackson wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">That is a beautiful prototype system.
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        <div>Just as an aside, it looks like your prototypes suffer from
          the same issue mine do - they lose their 1488 and 1489 chips
          to the sands of time as other projects need them.   :-)</div>
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                          <div>Kindest regards,</div>
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                          <div>Doug Jackson</div>
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                          <div>em: <a href="mailto:doug@doughq.com"
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                          <div>ph: 0414 986878</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:41
          AM Kenny Balys <<a href="mailto:kenny@beatkamp.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">kenny@beatkamp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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          Sure, here is a Scotchflex prototype.<br>
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          Typically, when one was trying to build something that was
          going<br>
          to be alpha'd forever, then the 3M press strips would be
          soldered<br>
          directly to sockets on the bottom of the perf board. The wire<br>
          is the exact same stuff used for wire wrapping. Dabs of epoxy<br>
          would be used to bundle everything together.<br>
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          Its very handy.<br>
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          In the case of microprocessor designs, all of the boring,
          normal<br>
          and necessary stuff like the ROM/RAM/decode
          logic/clock/UART/Interrupt<br>
          Controller/VIA, etc. had to be banged off fast. This is where
          the<br>
          Scotchflex is amazing.<br>
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          A prototype would be worked until it was perfect.<br>
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          Of course, its not possible to do a commercial release based
          on this<br>
          stuff. A wire wrapped board, on the other hand, is fully
          releasable.<br>
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          I am still coming to terms with this era being over as of
          yesterday.<br>
          Similarly, I always thought it was fancy to one's own circuit<br>
          boards printed and now I am going to do just that.<br>
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          I somehow missed the news.<br>
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          On 27.07.20 22:28 , Jay Schwichtenberg wrote:<br>
          > All I get when I try to google this is packing tape and
          presses for 0.1" ribbon<br>
          > connectors.<br>
          ><br>
          > Could you give a picture, data sheet or URL on what
          you're talking about?<br>
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          > Thanks<br>
          > Jay S.<br>
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