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The evolution of woven fiber optic circuit boards and connectors

April 14, 2022 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

During the ’60s and ’70s, the early mainframe computers and Telcom switches used complex dense wire-wrap technology. High-circuit-count copper backplanes and midplanes often relied on wire-wrap point-to-point, or pin-to-pin layouts. This involved lots of hook-up wire and singular micro-coax for the clock circuits. The wire-wrap pin backplane connectors at that time typically had round-wired edge […]

Filed Under: Basics, Featured Tagged With: backplane, cable, connectors, copperwire, fibercircuit, telcom, wirewrap

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