> Years ago, in the days of laying out PCBs with little rolls of rubber > tape, I dropped the tool of choice for this task, an Xacto knife. It > stuck, straight up, into the meat of my big toe! > I bigger yell was heard at Tandy in 1981, where I saw a noobie engineer try to put a 4:1 Bishop taped layout (it was on D size gridded Mylar) into the *blueprint machine* to make a copy. The ammonia made the tape delaminate off the mylar onto the pinch rollers. We lost the layout (it was for a stand-alone print spooler....remember those?) and the blueprint machine cost $3000 to fix it. Paul S.
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Re: [motm] Don't breadboard while barefoot
2007-12-14 by Paul Schreiber