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Tales From the Cube: Rush Project Troubleshooting Comes Down to
the Wire |
This
episode, titled
Rush-Project Troubleshooting Comes Down to the Wire, is included
here not necessarily because the technical aspect of the story is exceptional,
but because of the prank described in it. Wire-wrap board woes are all-too
familiar to those of us who lived through them for prototyping in the
1970s and 1980s (before surface mount obsoleted DIPs). I personally
built more than a hundred over the years. If you like waxing nostalgic
over the era, read it anyway, but mainly read to learn a great gag to
perpetrate upon a fellow engineer or technician. I rate it on par with
rigging a length of Tyvek tubing stealthily into a chassis and having
a cigarette smoker blow smoke through it from afar while someone is
working on the circuit. Ah, those were the good old days!

Posted March 2013 |
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