which PCB material sounds best ???

[Steve Eddy]

You do all know that the term "bread-board" came from the fact that people actually used to do P-P wiring on slabs of dried bread? It's true.

Yeah, and it can be a real *ahem* PITA.

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[poobah]

SE,

While all this went down before I was born... so I can't say for sure... I don't think it would have been PITA bread.

I don't know when pita became mainstream. Sliced bread didn't really happen until the 30's. I imagine it would have been a broad, white type, loaf used for this.

Mmm... a bread based amp using ciabatta... who knows the DA of olive oil?

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[Steve Eddy]

While all this went down before I was born... so I can't say for sure... I don't think it would have been PITA bread.

Probably not. But I couldn't resist the pun. 🙂

I don't know when pita became mainstream. Sliced bread didn't really happen until the 30's. I imagine it would have been a broad, white type, loaf used for this.

Perhaps. Are you SURE this isn't just an urban legend? Here's what I found at Wikipedia:

The breadboard derives its name from an early form of point-to-point construction. In the early days of radio, amateurs would nail copper wire or terminal strips to a wooden board (often literally a board for cutting bread), and solder electronic components to them. Sometimes a paper schematic diagram was first glued to the board as a guide to placing terminals, components and wires.

That actually makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than dried bread. I mean what, were these guys Bedouins living in the desert or something and dried bread was the only thing they had to mount their components to beside their camels?

Mmm... a bread based amp using ciabatta... who knows the DA of olive oil?[/B]

Dunno, but it's dielectric constant is 3.1. Lemon oil is better at 2.3. 🙂

se

 

[Tweeker]

Turbinol is the best sounding PCB. It's got a sort of woody quality about it.

Much better than Inerteen or Pyralene.
Frightful words.
Perfectly dreadful.
Ugh! Inerteen! ... Pyralene ... dreadful tinny sort of words. Tin, tin, tin.

 

[poobah]

SE,

I would suspect you're right... history on the web... who to believe?

Do keep in mind, all this electronics stuff started before even hard celluloid was around ('20's?)

Oh, and turbinol is in direct violation of the Patriot Act... hence the price.

You guys ROCK!

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