>I cut my teeth on....drawing schematics by hand on vellum
>and doing boards with red and blue mylar tape...the Bishops
>Graphics book...that was everyones reference in the day

Boy does that bring back memories. Anyone that wants to design a PCB should 
have to do one this way, to appreciate modern integrated tools with 
netlists, that keep track between the schematic and the layout.

>Then I started doing the boards and schematics on something
>like AutoCAD, but since it wasnt designed for boards,
>limited sucess.

My  first experience with ECAD was Easytrax, an early product from Protel, I 
believe this is now freely available for download from the web. Doesn't have 
a schematic package though, only layout.

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