Andrew Davie wrote:
> Ummmmm.... I was stunned tonight to look under the motherboard of this
> machine and find that it is totally wire-wrapped. Amazingly neat, but
> wire-wrapped and socketed - every single chip. Finding paths in this thing
> is going to be very very time consuming! This computer must have been
> extremely expensive in its day - the amount of work involved is incredible -
> not having made anything like it, I'm only guessing... but I'd guess many
> tens of man-hours.
Actually, probably not. There were wirewrap machines which would do this
in much less time (and human effort). I used to watch them on the
production floor when I worked for Burroughs.
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Received on Fri Mar 06 1998 - 15:11:50 GMT