Before revision: History upExamples of manually wrapped Western Union splices Wire wrapped backplane of an IBM 1401 computer, introduced in 1959 Wire wrapping comes from the tradition of rope splicing, in which a whipping knot of smaller rope binds and secures the strands of a larger rope.
After revision: History Wire wrapped backplane of an IBM 1401 computer, introduced in 1959 Wire wrapping comes from the tradition of rope splicing, in which a whipping knot of smaller rope binds and secures the strands of a larger rope.