"least number of
> bends" to next pin, cut, strip, and wrap, and zip to next pin to do.
Musta done 3
> wires per second. HORRIBLY-dangerous looking contraption! But I now have
NO
> clue who/what that was.
>
> BUT such a machine is kinda WAY out there in terms of complexity, etc. If
> built so that such would work reasonably well, I am sure it'd cost at
least a
> couple $thousand, NOT counting the computer!
>
I would tend to think around 10-100 times that, and yes, I've seen those
too. Really cool, but I don't think any one uses wire wrap anymore.
The old Texas Instrument 48 channel seismic recorders were all wire wrap.
Something like 250 wire wrapped plug in boards. Simulataneous sampling up to
200Hz, and stored on mag tape on a real cool reel to reel tape deck with
spinning tape heads like on a VCR.
Ron