Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Vero Wire Circuit Prototyping System
Message-ID: <1988Jul25.163636.18280@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <188@lithium.kcl-cs.UUCP> <7222@cup.portal.com> <1498@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <629@flada.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 88 16:36:36 GMT

In article <629@flada.tcom.stc.co.uk> pete@flada.UUCP (Peter Kendell) writes:
>>... Turned pin sockets have shorter legs so are trickier to use.
>>
>	I agree. The other problem with those posh turned-pin sockets is
>	that the wire has no corners to grip as it it does with the
>	cheapo sockets...

Of course, the other side of this is that you aren't going to have any
reliability problems with the sockets, which definitely is not the case
with the el cheapo sockets.  I've heard enough people curse cheap sockets
that I am reluctant to use them on anything significant.
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