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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Building One-of-a-Kind Systems (Wire-wrap)
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Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 13:47:53 EDT
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> In article <5254@ukc.UUCP> rde@ukc.UUCP (Bob Eager) writes:
> >The questions being asked (and answered) are pretty well
> >the ones I have been trying to find a good reference book for. Are there
> >*really* no good books  that  attack  these  problems  for  the  amateur
> >constructor of computer boards etc?
> Please post any answers to this question on the net.

Notwithstanding the absolutely compleat ye laste word article (leaves me almost
breathless) by "Yardbird" Larry J. Huntley:

>>>From: yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (Larry J. Huntley)
>>>Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro,net.analog
>>>Subject: One-of-a-Kind Systems (LONG!  Ph. Nos., Addresses)
>>>Message-ID: <1719@bmcg.UUCP>

Said article contains everything you *ever* wanted to know about wire-wrap (be
sure and get a copy of this from your netnews spool) whether or not you were
afraid to ask.  If only all net articles were this well done.  We could move
200 KBytes a day through here instead of 2.2 Megabytes.

However, I do recommend this one seminal reference, preferably in it's latest
edition:  The document is supplied by the Department of Defense.  The title -
get this now, as it would take Unix cref to re-acquire it, even if you have a
good memory:

			Military Standard MIL-STD-1130x
		Connections, Electrical, Solderless Wrapped

Where "x" is the latest revision letter.  Whew.  If you are an employee of a
military contractor, you can get the standard free from the Commander, Naval
Electronic Systems Command, Defense Standardization Program Branch, Washington,
D.C.  As of this late date, I get the impression that you can wait *forever*
for the Navy to ship you a copy of the standard if you do not have a contract
number that requires them to supply copy.  Instead, I recommend contacting a
private concern:

		National Standards & Specifications
		5161 River Road
		Bethesda, MD 20816
		Tel: 800-638-8094 except in MD, where it is 301-951-1310
		Ask for Beverly Hicks, ext. 437

Like most businesses of this sort, they like to do transactions in semi-bulk.
I would estimate the cost of this standard at $5 to $7 or so in small quantity.
It would probably be better to ask for catalog info on ANSI, IEEE, NEMA, and
MIL standards, then order a whole buncha stuff at once when you had a number
of things you always wanted but couldn't seem to locate at B. Dalton's.  That
way you could escape a minimum order charge.
								     Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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