It certainly can. Augat used to sell standardized panels with power on one side and ground on the other. Some had the corners connected and others used things that looked like 0.100" bobby pins, soldered around the WW socket pin to connect to the pour. They worked exceedingly well. I used them up to about 50MHz.
Which, of course is horrible for speed, which you were just complaining about.
There were 3-level pins, as well. Long strings are better, in any case.
IBM used WW for board backplanes, as well. Worked really well, though they were also printed and multi-layer.
100-ohms, with teflon wire, anyway. Not bad at all. The more random the wiring the better the impedance.
I prefer Teflon wire, though I've switched from #30 to #32 wire (because I can't find smaller). #30 wire is huge compared to 0402s and QFP leads, for instance.
I control impedances and terminations on a PCB. I can have a 50 ohm trace that splits into two 100 ohm traces. Wire-wrap can't do that.
Wire-wrap was expensive and barbaric, which is why hardly anyone uses it any more. It was sorta usable for breadboarding, back when we used DIP ic's in sockets. I don't miss any of that.
The really good thing nowadays is quick-turn, cheap multilayer PCBs for prototyping.
Ah, crosstalk as an impedance controlling technique.
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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
lunatic fringe electronics
The beldsol thermal-strip magnet wire is useful, sometimes.
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It solders a lot better if you scrape away just a bit of the insulation first. It does allow daisy-chain connections with one piece of wire and no stripping.
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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement
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It does allow daisy-chain connections with one piece
Genuine Belden wire is horrifically overpriced, though--I get the same stuff very cheap on eBay.
RG-402 semirigid coax used to be fairly cheap too, but a decade or so back the price about tripled and has stayed high. Belden wants about $8 per foot!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com
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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com
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