[sci.electronics] Looking for WireWrapping Tool

kthompso@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (Ken Thompson) (05/03/90)

I will have to disagree with you Roger.
With wire wrap you ALWAYS have a mess!
A printed prototype board will not have power distribution problems ( we
use power and ground layers on all boards) and will have interconnections
that match the schematic.  All changes are also easy to identify.
It is no contest, our technicians' time is best spent doing things other
than wirewraping.


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wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (05/06/90)

When I worked with high speed data stuff (200 megsbtes/sec) we
used wirewrap boards. Wish I could remember the trade name, but
they cost mucho $$$$ each, and had several layers of gnd & Vcc,
with enough c between them to help filter stuff. 

Our problems were that the automatic wirelist--> wrap machine
link made errors (ooops!) that were hell to find. Of course,
that 74F stuff didn't help matters much. It considered anything
as a valid input and counted away.
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