I too have always understood Veroboard (in the UK) to be the ubiquitous brand of stripboard.
However, in the USA stripboard cannot be found. What you find instead is "island board" where each hole has a separate copper island for soldering to.
It always puzzled me how to use this board, but apparently the suggested way is to bend over the component legs to make a bridge between pads and then solder them down. The result tends to look like a bit of a mess underneath but it is functional.
There are some other board patterns with "islands of three" arranged in different patterns, and that kind of board might be a bit more convenient. I saw some boards like that in Radio Shack.
Yes, that is the construction of it. A single copper island for each hole.
thanks for your reply. I will look for the other patterns.
Its my understanding that Perfboard has no copper landings. Perfboard is simply perforated FR4/paper.
The boards with copper landings were sold as 'vectorboard' by vector electronics, in a similiar way that 'veroboard' was sold by vero.
Radioshack used (still does I think) to sell an equivalent to 'vectorboard' that they called
'matrix' ? board.
Stripboard is veroboard however, at least when I was a kid, veroboard was plain copper (no tin plating). The stripboard 'copies' that I used to by from other manufacturers however were often tin plated.
There were others as well... some used to sell 'universal' and a bunch of other track arrangements.
You can find stripboard in the US but its not common (
www.electronics123.com) and you are as well just to order it online or through ebay. Walking in to Fry's they sell a mix of 'universal' and 'vectorboard' as does jameco, digikey etc.