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Holy crap- automated wire-wrapping. I used a wire-wrapped Lisp Machine in 1984 like this one: https://plus.google.com/+DrewFustini/posts/Vfe6TsXVpZW https://p
by morganw 12y ago
Holy crap- automated wire-wrapping. I used a wire-wrapped Lisp Machine in 1984 like this one:
https://plus.google.com/+DrewFustini/posts/Vfe6TsXVpZW https://plus.google.com/+DrewFustini/posts/Vfe6TsXVpZW
Zaphod and Arthur were made available to us. Arthur crashed more.
- Taniwha 12y agoIt's not that long ago I did my prototyping in wire-wrap - I still have proto boards in wirewrap sitting on my old-stuff shelf. These days we just get boards done in China and delivered in days. I think that it was largely the shift to surface mount parts that killed wirewrap as a prototyping medium