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Tube❄️Time

check out that cordwood construction. really sucks if a part dies in the middle of the board

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@tubetime takes a really fiddly finagler to get these things kept up. I can respect a repair person like that.

Dave Fischer

@tubetime Yeah, the only circuits I've ever seen that look like that are Seymour's. (If it's from a CDC-6600, the transistors should all be CDC-nnn named, because he had to special order them because he wanted silicon instead of germanium.)

Closeup side view of a module from a CDC-6600 supercomputer, 1964.
Григорий Клюшников

Tube🍂Time, but that's the only way they could pack components as densely at the time, isn't it?

Erik van Zijst

@tubetime the symmetry of the components and placement though. This was designed and assembled with passion.

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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Does that mean if a part dies in the middle of the board, you have to desolder 63746875 components to replace the part?

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