"Ian Thompson-Bell" wrote in message
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
They call it breadboarding because in the tube days an actual bread
board was used. It still works very well.


I remember when I first got into transistors in the 60s that Practical
Wireless in the UK had a series of articles for transistor based receivers
that were built on a piece of wooud. You used wood screws with copper
washers to connect things together. worked great.

Ian

I recently made myself a breadboard from, would you believe, a breadboard. I
stuck in three rows of nails and stretched three rows of tinned copper wire
to make the +- and ground rails, and it's really useful to build up
circuits. I used to do this in the early '70s, then we went all sexy with
the plug-in plastic sort of "prototype panels". Can't beat a breadboard for
simplicity.

S.



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