Changing wire-wrap configurations on DEC circuit boards

Randy Dawson rdawson16 at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 13 21:33:21 CST 2017


You can use the solderless board prototype board jumpers, sold at Frys and elsewhere.  They come in male and female, I assume (not being a dec guy) that these are standard square wire wrap posts...


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From: cctech <cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 3:59 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Changing wire-wrap configurations on DEC circuit boards

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Earl Evans <earl at retrobits.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've got a couple of DEC QBUS boards (including a quad SLU) for which
> configuration is set by wire-wrap jumpers. I don't have a wire-wrap tool,
> and have found that trying this by hand without one is not workable.
>
> Has anyone come up with a clever way to permit reconfiguration of these
> boards without semi-permanent changes? Or, alternatively, what wire-wrap
> tool would you recommend?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Earl
>

alligator clips?


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