Harrison,  I think you face the same thing I and others have faced.
I have many programs that will not run on the newer System.
I have one Microwave program that cost $12,000 and it will=20
not run on the latest systems.  I am keeping an alder system to run=20
these programs on.  I Pick up spare parts when I find them so I=20
can keep it running.  I try to keep two or three 5 1/4 in. and
the 1.44 mb drives so if I have old floppies I can use them.

I find this to be useful.

Derward Myrick
KD5WWI




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From: "Harrison Cooper" <harrison.cooper@listentech.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:44 AM
Subject: [OT] Looking for an Autocad "like" program - free and easy


> Finally moved up to win7, but my CAD package that ran under DOS (its
> that old) will not run under Win7 or the virtualXP window (it does run
> under winXP.  I like it (designCAD) because I've used it for so long
> that it takes me only minutes to draw something up.  I have the windows
> version but its not as easy to use.
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> So I attempted to install XP on the new laptop (HP G7-1260) after
> resizing the volume to give a 100G partition for it, and then running
> the XP install it crashes before it gets to the actual installation
> part.
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> So my options are:=20
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> 1. wipe the drive and install XP...then install Win7
> 2. Keep my old machine for the CAD program
> 3. Find a new free and easy to use CAD program.  I need to be able to
> import/export DXF from it. =20
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