On Thursday 16 December 2010, at 23.39.21, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

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> Aaaaaaaaaaargh, I had an amp from an established company, can't remember

> this company, everything was connected by wire-wrapping, so indeed a

> good discrete circuit, but the wire-wrapping did cause defects. Btw. I

> prefer good old leaded solder, but leaded solder in Germany isn't

> allowed anymore. We should start to wire-wrap all electronic devices for

> our politicians here :p.

Wire-wrapping... *hehe*

For my university project (some puny 15 years ago ;-), I decided to have some serious fun, and designed a MIDI synthesizer around a 68HC11, a battery backed RAM, some EEPROM and three 8580 (newer SID) chips. 700 pins, all wire-wrapped. And it even worked! :-)

Actually, it's quite swift and effective method; it's the cutting and stripping of the wires that's a PITA, unless you have a really good tool - which I didn't at the time! :-D

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