It is very important that you use the correct wire size and conductor type. We used about 130 million feet a year of 30 gage OFHC copper back in 1980 when we had over 100 Gardner Denver machines running 24/7 at the Western Electric plant in Oklahoma City. Good luck finding the people who knew how to run them.
 

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lee parker
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Wire wrap?


Graham

You are talking about a technology as old as the hills. The machine is
called Gardner Denver after the manufacturer. In the 70's AT&T had hundreds
of these machines at it's assembly locations. Eventually we migrated to
interconnected backplanes and the need for these machines went away.

You might try contacting some of the AT&T folks at Oklahoma City such. I
will pass your mane on to them and if they are interested they may contact
you.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Collins" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: [TN] Wire wrap?


> Hello Technet!
> Wire Wrap - no, this is not a NCT joke.  We've been asked to look at
> building some of a pretty old system.  The only problem is the backplane
> - it uses wire wrap, about 800 wires - so we would not enjoy doing it
> manually.  We've got a machine for the x-y locating, an EPC Technology
> 14/YA that for some reason we call a Gardner Denver, but it hasn't been
> used in about 10 years and there's nobody left here who knows how to
> program it.
>
> Is anyone on Technet familiar with such a machine?  It's got the floppy
> drive option, but I can't find any floppy disks for it - just paper
> tapes.  If I could even get my hands on a copy of a valid program I
> could probably figure out how to make it work.  I'm not up for reverse
> engineering the paper tapes though...
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
>  - Graham Collins
>  L-3 communications
>  Electronic Systems
>
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