On 01/11/2010 16:45, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
>> Same when I started my apprenticeship in new Zealand, in 1969. They
>> were still hand drawn 10 years later and PCBs laid out with real tape,
>> although I suspect by then any large company in the USA would have had
>> CAD systems for both functions.
> Hewlett Packard in New Jersey didn't when I started there in 1980.  I dre=
w
> schematics on D size vellum using pencil and eraser.  These were eventual=
ly
> given to a board guy who would lay it out at 2.5x or 4x scale with
> calibrated tape.  That would get photographed in transparency mode to mak=
e
> the 1:1 mask films.
>
> They were getting in and testing a CAD system when I left there in 1982.
>
My last tape design was in 1981. I still have one prototype model of it,=20
a single Eurocard Z80 controller.
 From 1982 it was CAD
For schematic capture stage "Futurenet" was really good, used it up to=20
about 1988
I use Eagle now. Used orcad, Autotrax, No1 systems and some other in the=20
past. I had a quicl look at kicad as it is "free" and they imported all=20
the Eagle libraries they could find..
But Eagle is kind of a standard, I have a paid version and anyone can=20
view/print/plot anysize board with the free download.
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