In article <4F565053.21950.1E295BF at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
On 6 Mar 2012 at 20:15, David Riley wrote:
I should also point out that all of the original
Macintosh
prototypes were wire-wrapped, which should probably indicate that it's
a pretty sound methodology for assembling microcomputers. It worked
well enough in '83, anyway.
Unless my memory has completely failed me, some microprocessor
prototypes were first done up in wirewrap before going to silicon.
And there were plenty of wirewrapped backplanes.
The Nuclear Data ND812 CPU is all wire-wrapped SSI/MSI 7400 series logic.
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