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1DIY wirewrap sockets
I was unable to locate a source for the 68030 socket with wirewrap termination. There were some sources which asked for $30/unit with a minimum of 50 units. Needless to say, this option was out.
As a consequence, I decided to DIY my socket. I planned to start with single-row wirewrap machine pin sockets and cut them to length to match the footprint of the 68030. Unfortunately, I did not have any, however I had a ton of wirewrap DIP sockets that I decided to cannibalize. I separated the rows, cut these resulting rows to length as needed. I then pushed the pin strips onto the CPU, and then once every CPU pin had a corresponding wirewrap pin, i fed the wirewrap pins through a small prototyping board to provide structural support and to hold the headers in the proper location. Once this was done, I carefully removed the CPU from the socket and applied some cyanoacrylate glue to the strips to cement them into place, which was probably not a required step.
This socket is then in turn inserted into my VME wirewrap prototyping board, and the wrapped wire locks the socket into place.
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