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> Each wire strand had to be carefully put in place and soldered or specially wire wrapped manually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap https://en.wikipedi
by throw0101a 5y ago
> Each wire strand had to be carefully put in place and soldered or specially wire wrapped manually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
It seems to be that wire wrapping isn't very popular nowadays, and that hobbyists tend to use breadboards [1]. Is there a particular reason for that?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard
- dboreham 5y agoComponents are too small to solder or weld a wire to by hand.
- trasz 5y agoYou’d still need to solder components to the posts, and only then you could do the wirewrap connections between those posts. It just doesn’t make any sense. I believe even “back then” the wire wrap was only used on backplanes; modules plugged into those were through-hole PCBs plugged directly into the posts that were wrapped around in the other side.