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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (78400)	11/2/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584279

Hi Bill Jackson; I date just a little before bare boards. My first two computers were home designs, with hand etched PCBs (never again). The only bare board machine I built was a CPM86 machine. Those bare boards were nasty. They never had a parts list that was either complete or accurate, and they always had just enough design problems that you would have to understand the circuitry pretty much completely, on the way to getting your stuff running. (And that was in addition to the soldering problems.) A friend in grad school bought one of those apple bare boards. Protected all the parts with those old sockets. That's right, the cheap ones that had a tendency to wick the solder up into the wipers. And yep, he soldered in all the sockets before checking to see if any worked. After observing the resulting fiasco, it took me years to shake the tendency to solder sockets into boards with the chips already installed in the sockets... I hadn't realized that his apple clone was illegal. I really wasn't in the mindset at the time to understand or care. We just wanted machines. I certainly remember Batavia NY as a mail order supply address, so I may have bought stuff from you... Yeah, the more I think about it, Computer Parts Galore does sound familiar. I'm sure I saw your ads. It's been a while. I remember being stunned when I bought my first printer that didn't require a soldering iron to be connected to a computer. Ah, the glory days... -- Carl