> >I remember working with 'multi-wire' boards, which had layers of
> >wiring buried in the resin similarly.
> That's a good "whatever happened to".. Like Space Food sticks, and
> fizzies!
> I remember, the idea was that they just needed a netlist, no routing
> information, and it was supposed to be faster and cheaper than
> prototype PCBs.

They were still around a couple of years ago, being marketed
towards high speed, dense backplanes. They were cost effective
against the high layer count PCBs you might otherwise use.


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TLA Microsystems Ltd         Microcontroller Specialists
PO Box 15-680, New Lynn      http://www.tla.co.nz
Auckland, New Zealand        ph  +64 9 820-2221
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