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Re: [motm] Don't breadboard while barefoot

2007-12-14 by Paul Schreiber

> 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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