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Re:Wire wrap by metaphor on Saturday October 31, 2015 @06:40PM (#10484512)
For sub-50MHz digital applications, wire wrap is still my preferred method of prototyping, predominately influenced by my undergrad experience with this guy[1]...I'm fairly confident that he was the sole reason why the local RadioShacks in town kept a handsome stock of affordable wire wrap tools and 30AWG wire on the shelves year round.

I know certain defense performance specifications (e.g. [2]) explicitly prohibit the use of wire wrap in production hardware, although in this particularly case, the driving factor is largely based on maintainability considerations.

[1] https://www.ece.ufl.edu/users/gugel-karl [2] http://www.acq.osd.mil/ats/MIL-PRF-32070A.pdf

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