--Wire-wrapping a board for use in a PC means blowing off one of your slots, since the wire-wrap pins stick out into the adjacent card's space. But, see the last comment below! --Buy pre-cut wire-wrap wire, color-coded, if you'll be doing a lot of wrapping. An index card marked with the *insulated* lengths of each color then quickly identifies the correct wire to use. (Expensive initially, but the only way to fly for multiple projects. Digi-Key sells, or used to.) --Wrap-ID (tm) are really nice to have. Little plastic do-da's that slide over the pins on the bottom side of the board (where you'll be wrapping) with the pin #'s and space to write the part number. (Digi-Key probably still sells.) --Make an extra copy of your schematic, then use a yellow highlighter to highlight the connections as you make them. (Digi-Key does not sell yellow highlighters. ;) ) --Neatness will pay off more than you initially think. --Strangely enough, the wire-wrap tool from Radio Shack is (was?) not too bad--and much cheaper than the brand names in the field. (I got one many years ago, and RS is not known for consistancy of products, so take this for what it's worth.) And now, for the first time ever (AFAIK), the "skinny wire-wrap" method, which I learned from my friend Martin King: Instead of using wire-wrap sockets, instead use decent quality solder-tail sockets. Use pad-per-hole board material, and solder down the sockets leaving extra space to the sides of all IC sockets. Now take 0.025" square post headers (single-wide) and solder them along the sides of each IC socket. Use bare wire or solder bridges to connect each IC socket pin to the corresponding pin on the header. Now you can wire-wrap on the top of the board. Usually doesn't add any additional height to the board (caps or such are usually just as high), but no pins sticking out the bottom. For cards destined for ISA slots in a PC, you don't lose use of the adjacent slot. (Since wires tend to get channeled between ICs, rather than "through" them as in ordinary wire-wrapping, this is not a good method for low-noise applications. I'd also use gold-plated headers, not tin, but that's just a preference.) YMMV