Hey, I did that on Sunday afternoons on the Star-100 with Lincoln and his son 
PD when I was in 8th grade.  I never became a manager though :-)

Chris
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Chris Elmquist

> On Apr 22, 2024, at 3:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 4/22/24 13:02, Wayne S wrote:
>> I read somewhere that the cable lengths were expressly engineered to provide 
>> that signals arrived to chips at nearly the same time so as to reduce chip 
>> “wait” times and provide more speed.
> 
> That certainly was true for the 6600.  My unit manager, fresh out of
> UofMinn had his first job with CDC, measuring wire loops on the first
> 6600 to which Seymour had attached tags that said "tune".
> 
> But then, take a gander at a modern notherboard and the lengths (sic) to
> which the designers have routed the traces so that timing works.
> 
> --Chuck
> 

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