Date   : Fri, 14 May 2010 23:06:31 +0100
From   : bbcmicro@... (Ian Stocks)
Subject: ReTuLa, a Tube ULA

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <uubru51g8ouveqkr4981oph7dh9dqqrre8@...>, John Kortink
> <kortink@...> writes
> 
>> But, strangely enough, almost nobody clicks on the
>> images for the larger ones .....
> 
> They're perfectly clear as they are.
> 
> That is a lovely board.  Are the holes not plated through? (just
> wondering about the additional soldering on the pins above the row of
> links in snapshot2.)
> 

Which holes?, I think you'll find they are just pads on the underside, 
the middle 8 pins of the pin headers dont go through the board, if they 
did they would end up puncturing the leads of the Chip on the other side.

I wonder if the links are there as a way of connecting the middle 8 
pins, maybe the original idea was to bend the pins over and solder them 
where the links are.

Ian.