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On 04/12/2017 09:40 AM, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Those were actually my first choice!  I remember having an electronics
>> set as a kid that used them; it had a bunch of discrete components
>> that you connected together by trapping wires in the springs to make
>> different circuits.  I gave up looking since I couldn’t find a
>> specific reference to them.
>
> Very similar to this, in
> fact: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/75in1.jpg except
> mine wasn’t quite so fancy (no wooden box and I don’t recall it having a
> meter).

   I had the 65-in-1, and later the 150-in-1.  That's what got me 
started in electronics, 41 years ago.

               -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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