[blackguardx]

It is still technically called a breadboard. The other type of breadboard you are thinking of is a "solderless breadboard." Original breadboards date back to the days before printed circuits when people would stick component leads through holes drilled in a piece of wood or some other material and wire them together.

[ZenoArrow]

Isn't 'stripboard' the technical term for the soldered type of prototyping board (often known as veroboard in the UK)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripboard

I've only heard the term breadboard being applied to the solderless prototyping boards (and the old school point to point type).

[kcsongor]

oh, I didn't know that :) in the context I've heard it, people usually referred to the solderless one