8/S Replica

[jim s]

Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
>>
excellent suggestion.  My suggestion needed an additional connector, and 
would offer nothing by having it.

to another point brought up, I was only worried about enough fingers, 
not too few.

I have access to a couple of Standard wire wrap machines, and the lady 
who used to run it, if anyone can get an idea how to do the boards, and 
get the paper tapes.  I wonder if it is worth the effort of wirewrap, 
since the connectors don't have wirewrap tails?

It's been a while since I looked at what goes on with the DEC backplanes 
and wirewrap.  Do they populate pins regardless of the connectors having 
wirewrap tails, or are the pins mostly from the connectors?

We had a system which used a lot of wirewrap boards, (off these 
machines) but we never lacked for PC backplanes and card cages due to a 
good surplus buy.

So I didn't have to wirewrap any backplanes, thank goodness.

Jim