Does anyone still WIREWRAP?

Clock Loop

I still use wire wrap because purchasing etched boards, purchasing etch equiptment all cost more than
for me to just go buy some wire wrap wire...

(plus I have an almost limitless supply of DIP wire wrap terminals)

Also I like the fact that I can reuse the wire, the terminals, and the chips.. Nothings permanent, but still better than breadboard.

Anyone have good places to purchase wire wrap stuff?

Steve Joblin

I am also a "wire wrapper".· I get my stuff at Jameco or Digikey.· One key advantage is that you can always buy the wire at Radio Shack in a pinch!

bobledoux

I use it for experimental projects. At a recent hamfest I bought a box of equipment including three powered winders and a couple of pounds of cut wire in various lengths for $10. The winders are still in the Digikey catalog for about $200 each.

Wirewrap is superior to the plastic prototype boards.

Paul Baker

WW Sockets can be had from www.allelectronics.com for fairly cheap and www.sparkfun.com has 100' lengths of wire for under $8.


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Post Edited (Paul Baker) : 10/27/2005 1:54:27 PM GMT

Chris Savage

BPM,

·· Yes, some of us still wire-wrap...I used to do it for 6502, 6809 and Z80 boards, but now I rarely use it (But once in awhile).· I still keep 3 different colored spools of wire-wrap wire handy in my parts bins, as well as sockets of every popular size for wire-wrapping.

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Chris Savage
Parallax Tech Support
csavage@parallax.com

LoopyByteloose

I gave up my wire-wrap tools along with many other items [noparse][[/noparse]like a dozen matched 12ax7 tubes in original Textronix boxes] when I moved to Taiwan.

It certainly is one of the neatest ways to prototype. Now I have too solder, etc. Those Power wrappers turn up at flea markets and ham swaps. Definitely an excellent purchase at $10 for three.

I think I will go have a good cry.

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PJAllen

I really like wire-wrap wire, I use it extensively, but I don't wire-wrap per se.· Extravagant use of space --·two or three wraps high and I'll have to use a refrigerator for a project box.

Clock Loop

PJ Allen said...
I really like wire-wrap wire, I use it extensively, but I don't wire-wrap per se. Extravagant use of space -- two or three wraps high and I'll have to use a refrigerator for a project box.

It definetly gets messy at times.

steve_b

you should be a land developer BPM...you sure made good use of that project box!

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Steve

"Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered."

metron9

That image mess.jpg is a good one to just hang on the door this Holloween.

Clock Loop

' {$Beat PM2}
' {$PBASIC 2.5}

steve_b    PIN    0   'steve_b
metron9   PIN    2   ' metron9
bpm         PIN    4   'BPM

funny                  VAR       Word
landdeveloper       VAR       Word
electronicEE          VAR       Word
wiremess              VAR       Word
desire                   VAR       Word

'---main----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Main:

SHIFTOUT Wiremess, metron9, MSBFIRST, [noparse][[/noparse]%funny] 

SHIFTOUT landdeveloper, steve_b, MSBFIRST, [noparse][[/noparse]%funny] 

LOW landdeveloper

HIGH electronicEE

SHIFTOUT desire, bpm, MSBFIRST, [noparse][[/noparse]%electronicEE]

GOSUB stopcoffeeflow
GOSUB sleep

WTF....

PJAllen

in re. MESS.JPG --

"lookit all them wires"