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Message #09324



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Richard Piotter" richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:07:52 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Pertaining to the Hextile things. You should really make them hextiles and not DIP


> There is no reason NOT to include the DIP form factor. It doesn't remove
> any functionality from the Hextile, nor does it limit it in any way. It
> would not cost much more, if at all. The DIP will work fine because it
> IS the Hextile. you simply trin the points off the hextile, leaving only
> the square center. Solder in 2 pairs of 4 male header pins, and you're
> set for DIP opperation. You want to use it as a hextile, you leave it
> alone! No modification for use as an Nv, and simple cut & solder traces
> to convert it to an Nu. Most other modifications would be used only be
> more advanced experimenters working with larger, more complex neural net
> type circuits.
>
> There is no reason to oppose the DIP/Hextile combo, as all it is is the
> way the pattern is done on the hextile!



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