6 Mar
1998
6 Mar
'98
3:11 p.m.
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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Hans B. Pufal : <mailto:hansp@digiweb.com>
Comprehensive Computer Catalogue : <http://www.digiweb.com/~hansp/ccc/>
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