[Tom] doesn’t much like breadboarding. He prefers to wire up prototypes with perfboard and solder point-to-point with enameled magnet wire. That may sound troublesome to some of you, but [Tom ...

It solves a long-running problem for [mulcmu], after their experiments with techniques ... has a wire ferrule inserted in the end, which serves as the tip of the device through which solder ...

The use of tiny wires that are soldered to the bare chip (bare die) on one end and to metal leads of the chip package on the other. Before the advent of flip chips and solder ball techniques ...