Lorraine wire-wrapped prototypes at the Amiga 40 event

Dale Luck exhibited several Amiga prototypes recently. The three custom chips in Lorraine are implemented on wire-wrap boards. (There was no attempt to run them.)

Image above clipped from the gallery here:

also in English, mistakenly translated as breadboard:

via Two Stop Bits and also discussed at HN, where we see the comment

The display was in a booth replicating the 1984 Winter CES booth. Here is a Creative Computing article from the 1984 event.

From that article

If there was a “hit” of the show for me, it had to be my first glimpse of the supermicro code-named Lorraine by Amiga. There was no hint of the machine anywhere in evidence at the Amiga booth. But, with an invitation to step behind the secret panel, my jaw finally got a change to drop. As far as I’m concerned, the Lorraine demo was reason enough to have made the trip to Las Vegas.

See also perhaps

(and the HN discussion on that)

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