By 1977, though, they were small breadboards in the Radio Shack catalog for $9.95 — about half the cost of lava lamp and worth about $50 in today’s money. In 1976, a 6×7 inch breadboard from ...

So half of the story is how [Joe] managed to monitor his output. You’ll see in the video that while the breadboard is just an ordinary-looking breadboard, it is covered with strange-looking ...