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Re:Wire wrap by bbrazil on Saturday October 31, 2015 @05:30PM (#10484289)
As part of my degree 10 years ago we did wire wrapping to make a simple 68332 computer with serial terminals for I/O. The team I was on was weeks ahead of the others, until we were stuck by what turned out to be one wrong wire.

I think it was dropped from the course a few years later.

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Re:Wire wrap by daltonlp on Saturday October 31, 2015 @06:16PM (#10484445)
Holler. Our EE curriculum did the same thing (with an 8088). All the groups spent an lot of time with the logic analyzer detecting one-wrong-wire issues.

That was an incredibly valuable learning experience. I don't know if it's still taught that way, but I hope so.

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