I knew exactly what it meant the first time I saw the term used in
PCD mag. Back in the "old days" metric parts and SMT were very rare.
Practically every feature on a PCB... except D-sub connectors...
fell on a 25 mil grid.

Any part that didn't place on grid was some sort of oddball that
didn't fit in with the rest of the world...


On 3 Jan 2007 at 14:39, Pete Waddell wrote:

 >The first time I heard this was from a guy named Butch Broberg from somewhere in Oklahoma. It was BC (Before CAD) when we did use grids. Of course anything off that grid was considered a registration problem. I was trying to decide whother to stay with EM design or PCBs. In one of his moments (Butch was a great guy who would constantly amaze me with his exploits and his witty reparte') he looked at me with a glint in his eye and a bottle of Bushmills in his hand and said "You know Pete, ya gotta be aat least a little off-grid to be in this business" I took it to mean that PCB designers march to a different drummer if ya know what I mean.
 > Anybodyout there know what ever became of Butch?
 >
 >p.
 >

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