DIP Solder header still in use?

louarnold:
Where do you put the SIP rails - where the DIP pins would go?

I get out my Dremel and cut out small sections from
experimenter board and go from there.

In this pic, I made a plug / cable lead-out, but I could have jammed
some components on it same way (without the leads), same principle:

Those fibreglas carriers look nice, I remember seeing one a long time ago.
Maybe they were all that way at first and someone said, "Hey, let's use crappy low-temp plastic instead." (: