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Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-10-00110-EN.html
47•doener•2h ago

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verytrivial•1h ago
Wire wrap is/was an underrated prototyping technique prior to PCB automation. Nasa flew missions with wire wrap boards.
mikepurvis•29m ago
I had an old Kenwood amplifier for years that had wire wrap board to board connectors; it worked great.
Schlagbohrer•40m ago
What a godawful mess that must have been to debug. I've never used wirewrap, it looks awful to me.

I am trying to imagine what it would have been like to design such a system using only pencil and paper. Going from block diagram to the lowest level, just on big sheets of paper... the pencil sharpeners must have been emptied twice a day.

Gibbon1•7m ago
The existence of wire wrap tells you a lot how painfully tedious it was to layout PCB's at the time. I did a couple of wire wrap boards. But eventually just started soldering wire wrap wire to the sockets. By the early 90's it was faster to layout a PCB and have it fabbed. Bonus you could outsource that and use the 3-4 weeks to do less tedious things.

This is just around the time that programmable logic became readily available. It'd be much easier to iterate with that than wiring up logic gates. Last 30 years you can do all this debugging with simulations and then test using FPGA's.

christkv•34m ago
Does it still boot?
yzydserd•27m ago
The display was in a booth replicating the 1984 Winter CES booth. Here is a Creative Computing article from the 1984 event.

https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n4/150_Amiga_Lorr...

Forbodingly, the article signs off with "Amiga, please don't join the sorrowful ranks that have wasted technological superiority through marketing muck-ups."

krige•10m ago
Well, lucky Amiga, it was wasted by executive muck-ups rather than mere marketing foibles.
Jolter•18m ago
I’m amazed someone preserved that! In whose ownership is it currently?

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