charlie@oblio.UUCP (Charlie Richardson) (08/11/89)
There is a local store here in San Jose, called San Jose Computer, which
is selling the Abacus/Data Becker PC Board Designer software package for
$50.00 new. The package lists for $249.95 or something like that.
Seems like they bought about 200 packages and need to blow them out.
If you are a hardware hacker/hobbyist and designing boards of nontrivial
complexity, this package is a hell of a deal for this price.
I bought one and have been playing with it for a couple of days. Very nice;
includes an auto-router. It prints out 2 to 1 enlarged component/trace layouts
on an Epson FX (MX), 24 pin printers, and HPGL plotters ; will do boards of up
to about 6.5" by 4.5". Component library capability will handle components of
up to 120 connection points. Single and double sided boards are supported.
I like it.
The phone number for San Jose Computer is (408) 224-8575. I have no association
with the store except for customer.
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Charlie Richardson
Acer America, Inc.
2127 Ringwood Ave.
San Jose, CA 95131
VOICE: (408) 434-0190 UUCP: {hplabs,unixprt}!oblio!charlieexspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) (08/16/89)
I've found myself wondering whether PC board designers couldn't be used to make maps for adventure games. Seems to me that the typical adventure 'room' could be regarded as a box with up to 10 connections (Up, Down, 8 compass points) so you could lie to the software and tell it it was working with 10-pin IC's. The 'paths' between the rooms then become the traces of the PC, of course. Has anyone actually tried this? -- Paul Smee | JANET: Smee@uk.ac.bristol Computer Centre | BITNET: Smee%uk.ac.bristol@ukacrl.bitnet University of Bristol | Internet: Smee%uk.ac.bristol@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Phone: +44 272 303132) | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!gdr.bath.ac.uk!exspes