And windows. And eyes. And mouths. And minds. And concepts. And roads. And sesames.
Also, it's an amazing pedal. Easily the best $34 I've spent.
) I know of at least one un-named, large, mil-type customer who built an entire mezzanine board off that proto-area and ran a D/A-A/D convertor up there and fed it back down to the ZIF socket so they could see what their device's analog-output looked like... the crazy things customers will do if you give'm enough rope, huh?
Back in the 80's, places like Portland and San Jose proudly created cartoon maps of their area, noting the spinoff companies from inadvertant high-tech incubators like HP, Tektronix and Intel.
They had fun little inside jokes built into the maps, buildings and peoples placed in and around the maps... kinda like Where's Waldo for tech nerds... later, this concept was usurped by Bland/Boring maps that just flashed corporate logos and required no insider knowledge... just a thing to hang on the wall.
Even a CFO could understand those bits-o-drek.
Mr. Cram. I assume you have a little discretionary fund laying around somewhere in there.... maybe a pile of all the gold-plated IC leads you've clipped over the years? Anyway, turn in those gold teeth and commission some starving artist in your area to create a 'momento' for your cow-orkers. Something they can hang on the wall and be proud of.
Here's one we made for ourselves at my first department at Mentor Graphics.... right before they closed us down and said goodbye to Hardware Products forever in 1987.
I'm the Mock Lobster:
FYI[/spoiler]fyi : "HML" was the Hardware Modeling Library ... a device into which you could plug any VLSI chip and include it into your schematic simulation .. predates VHDL descriptive language models, circa 1984.
Here's one of my PCBs that I had a major design-hand in, both it's functionality and the actual layout...all layout by hand on mylar, then digitized. 4 power planes and 12 flipping layers of traces, all controlled impedance and with miles of signal-delaying traceloopbacks, tricks with registers, 3-phases of 100k ECL master clocks, all 256 vectors hitting the chip-under-test at precisely the same instant. We could read the chip's response to within a 2 nsec window... in 1984... not bad for stone knives and bearskins.
I also design the custom pattern for the ZIF sockets at the top (where the customer's chip is placed) and the power/ground routing/system which was non-trivial since you have no idea which pin power or ground is on... I even accommodated 2 additional power rails IF the chip needed them... and a mini-prototype area for a few support devices if needed (imagine an MS3007 trying to run without it's handful of resistors and a cap hanging off of pins 7 and 8
Tom Cram is Marc Mot backwards. Isn't that weird?
A palindrome. Nice!
Shouldn't the word palindrome be a palindrome?
