??? 10/10/07 06:34 Read: times |
#145573 - this is beyond my imagination Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
You could build a very dense circuit with this technology, but because the wires were continuous, it was very difficult to modify a circuit as required due either to a mistake or a design change. I knew one fellow who bought a bunch of this hardware at considerable expense, yet couldn't use it, ultimately, because it was too difficult to modify. He hadn't yet discovered that there were "two-level" wire-wrap sockets, so his wire-wrap boards required he skip a slot between boards, and that didn't work in his Apple-][. As I in fact only saw wire-wrapped racks (and never boards), I can only guess what you are referring to as "skipped slots" - but I can imagine that it is not easy to repair a continouos-wire-based design. However, with a bit of imagination, a two-contact IDC header could be visualised - and as it is "only" a piece of well-stamped metal sheet, it even could be just a bit more expensive than the "single" one... OK that's just my imagination, of course; there's much more in a success of an idea, I know... JW |