more gold FR4...

[rbowman]

On 05/10/2022 01:05 PM, whit3rd wrote:

On Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 5:10:14 PM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:
Joe Gwinn wrote:

As engineers, don\'t we need to come up with a pseudo technical reason,
like a gold surface is smoother and keeps its low surface resistivity
despite sweaty palms and caustic looks?

So something that looks like a Yugo is fine, as long as the mechanicals
underneath are good?

Well, I\'m not sure \'looks like a Yugo\' is the apt image; the Yugo, after
all, was a fine Italian design. But, yeah, when the discussion of should-we-buy
happens, you don\'t want a visible blemish to be part of the discussion.

The Fiat 128 was no beauty and translating it to Serbo-Croatian didn\'t
help. While I was not in favor of the whole fiasco bombing the Zastava
factory was a plus.

I may be a little OCD but while my shop space looks like the aftermath
of a hurricane I always wanted anything produced for public consumption
to look good.