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Answer by hotpaw2 for Were any vacuum tube computers built with wire wrap?

Not sure I would trust 30 gauge wire wrap wire insulation with vacuum tube plate voltage. The cross-talk at the higher voltages plus digital edge speeds would also be far worse.

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Answer by Raffzahn for Were any vacuum tube computers built with wire wrap?

Wire Wrap as used in computers is simply a later development then the ENIAC or vacuum tubes in general (*1).The Keller tools were first marketed in 1953 and it took a few more years until they made...

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Were any vacuum tube computers built with wire wrap?

I'm trying to gain some understanding of how early computers were built; as discussed in What accounted for the cost of ENIAC? the cost of first-generation computers was not necessarily mostly about...

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