[hermitdev]

I did wired wrapped electronica in college around 20 years ago. Wire running can easily become a dishrevelled mess. We also only had one color wire available, making non trivial difficult to follow and extremely difficult to debug.

Personally, I found my bread board circuits more aesthetically pleasing and easier to reason about. I had 4 different colors of wire, I always ran my wires in the cleanest manner possible using the most direct and shortest wire.

Probably the most complicated bread board circuit I wired up was an 8KB RAM bank for a 16bit microcomputer. My only real wire wrap project was when we prototyped an MP3 player driven by an AVR.

[bcaa7f3a8bbc]

> We also only had one color wire available, making non trivial difficult to follow and extremely difficult to debug.

This is no longer a problem today.

> using the most direct and shortest wire.

Unfortunately, it's often not even possible! A DIP-40 chip already occupies most columns, leaving only two or three columns for wiring. Impossible to wire the bus directly...