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from Appleton, WI on 10/12/2008
I have used this board for 20 years and must have purchsed 100 or more. While it's main virtue is that it matches the breadboard, I have found that the layout is extremely versatile. After all these years, I'd be lost without it so I hope RadioShack keeps it on the shelf as it's the only place you can get it now. In the past, the board used to come pre-tinned. Wish it still did.
from Southern California on 5/14/2008
I've probably used at least 50 of these over the last 20+ years for breadboarding analog circuits, partly because of the 5 connected holes in each row above and below the IC strip. Other boards only have 3 or 4 holes in each row, which is definitely not enough. (Sometimes I still end up putting two leads in one hole, plus putting a few parts on the back; but I can get relatively dense, well behaved circuit prototypes this way.) Wire-wrap is suitable for low-speed digital, but not for analog like this proto board. I have the solderless breadboards in the same format too, but I don't really use the soldered and solderless types in the same projects.
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It's OK as a means of making a breadboarded project more permanent, but one small improvement would make it nearly-perfect: another set of hole-pairs running down the middle, so anyone who needs to use an IDC header could solder it so one row was in one side of the board, and the other row was in one of the 2-hole pairs running down the middle. Then, there would still be one pad left for each pin to connect it to something else.
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from Chippewa, WI on 7/23/2007
This makes it so easy to take an already designed project
on a solderless board and then just transfer the components over one by one. Used it to solder up a booster amp for my boom box ~;)~
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This is an excellent way to build something that you originally prototyped on a solderless breadboard. We used this part for building the all the projects in the Extreme NXT book.