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Old 16th Feb 2020, 5:44 pm   #24
G6Tanuki
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Default Re: Stripboard warning

I'm still a fan of stripboard: as well as the traditional Veroboard-type with copper strips all the way across, in times-past I built quite a few logic-circuits using TTL and a kind of FR4 board that had sets of 16-pin DIL outlines with the 'tracks' from each pin on each chip extending outwards for 3 or 4 holes. There was a kind of turret-tag that could be pushed into the holes, soldered on the underside, and then the bit that stuck through could take 4 or 5 wire-wraps.
It also had dedicated longitudinal power/ground rails. Even better there was a special kind of ceramic decoupling-capacitor presented as a flat strip with upstanding 'legs' at the same 16-pin DIL power-pin spacing - these were great because they could be fitted _underneath_ the DIL chips before you soldered the chips in place, providing decoupling directly at the power/ground pins.

I built a number of TTL/RS232/ECL interfaces for things like a 9-track 6250BPI high-speed tape-drive to a PDP11 using this sort of approach.
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