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Albert van der Horst wrote:

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> Good grieve. You're one of the most accomplished experts in the field
> of embedded programming, and you do it for a living. You can't expect
> that what you find easy, is easy for others. I've the solder-it-yourself-
> prototype board for GA144, and I dare not touch it, because I made
> such a mess of the example boards of the same type with twice the
> pin distance.

Thanks for that accolade Albert. Even though you think I am an accomplished 
professional, and I certainly do this stuff for a living and have been in 
practice for over 40 years, I do not get as much time at the solder bench 
these days as I used to. There was a time when the soldering iron used to be 
hot all day. I am just in the habit of doing the first few prototypes just 
to check things out then letting the companies that have the robotic 
assembly line handle the final quantity at high quality.
 
> By the way, I don't own a microscope.

The Angle-poise I have is an LED lit one which can be found for as little as 
£25.00 and the microscope is a Maplin job (400x magnification) for about 
£39.00 IIRC.
 
> I can't agree with rickman. There is so much experimenting needed to
> get anything going with those boards that designing a circuit board
> around each experiment is out of the question. Moreover I for me would
> not manage to design such a board.
> 
> "Prototyping by hand is virtually gone in the professional world"
> My argument was that only Forth enthusiast, mostly hobbyists, try
> those chips out.

Depends which part of the professional world, but generally that is the case 
these days. It is often a value judgement about whether you need to use high 
level engineers as prototype board assemblers or let them carry on with the 
higher level engineering tasks instead.

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Question to Albert rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-09-17 20:27 -0400
  Re: Question to Albert Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-09-18 08:08 +0100
    Re: Question to Albert rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 03:55 -0400
    Re: Question to Albert albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-09-18 10:37 +0000
      Re: Question to Albert rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 16:30 -0400
      Re: Question to Albert Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-09-19 01:11 +0100
    Re: Question to Albert Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2014-09-27 17:10 -0700

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