Terry, we use millions of dollars worth of design and simulation
software to do our prototyping at work. The only tools we handle are a
keyboard and a mouse. If we are REALLY lucky the $5 million dollar ASIC
works out of the shoot. More likely, we need to spend a couple more
million to re-spin the design to get rid of a few really obscure bugs.

Back in the good old days, we could easily add/remove wire wrap wires on
the prototype backplanes until the pesky obscure bugs were squashed. Ah,
for the simpler days!

Phil B


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Phil, not much call for wire-wrap? I still use it for all my
prototyping at work, my nixie tube clocks, all my home gadget
projects... I love the stuff. Of course it helps to have an electric
gun and a cut/strip/wrap bit!

I don't know what I'd do without wire wrap... anyone with wire-wrap
tools they don't want, I'll take 'em!

Terry.

Phil,

I guess I still live in the simpler days!

Truthfully, most of my work is designing control boards for sweepers
and scrubbers.... DSP based designs with straightforward I/O and lots
of power outputs, H-bridges and such... Not a lot of prototyping goes
on anymore. I kind of miss it. That's why I still do it at home. Pure
fun.

Terry.