10 Oct
2019
10 Oct
'19
10:17 p.m.
Mark said
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Steve
Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
I am not sure whether you meant "don't just own" or "just don't
own", but the
last time we used it was to wire wrap a 2716 eprom programmer S-100 board we
designed (ok, he designed, but I helped build it) back in about 1981/82 or so.
I haven't seen or thought of it since then, but seeing it in the photo instantly
brought back the memory of it.
I have some of the tools, others have gone missing, for instance the large tool bag
at the rear of the first photo on
https://slx-online.biz/hursley/ce-data-list.asp?hur_archive=2
But I do still have the tool bag identical to the one in the foreground, in the
same russet brown colour but the zipper canvas has dry rotted.
That wire wrap tool is identical to one my dad
had in his CE toolkit
I ... should take it from this that people don't just *own* these anymore?
This was an "essntial device" in my younger engineering days. Sigh.
Yes, I still have it. Yes, I have used it (albeit not recently). Yes,
I have used the Gardner-Denver electric tool as well, although in those
days I never could have afforded it.