AVR-Chat

Altium says it's no longer supported at the web site and recommends 
their other products.

Easytrax!  That was the original name.  I used that too for a while as a 
shareware program, or was it freeware?  I think I had one of those high 
end 386DX-40 machines though.  Started out with AutoCAD on a 4.77MHz 
machine with a 10MB hard disk, 512KB ram, COLOR monitor...180 cps 
printer...we were walking in high cotton back in those days.  I always 
thought I had "made it" when I could afford to buy my own electric 
eraser...which I still have...then had to switch over to CAD systems due 
to customer demands within a couple of months.  That old electric eraser 
does a fine job polishing watch crystals and edge contacts.    :-D

I've never had a problem with customers being able to suck my drawings 
into their Protel systems so you're probably okay there.  All you'll 
have to do is find someone with Protel and ask them to convert to 
another format if need be.

I jumped on AutoTrax EDA thinking it was akin to the AutoTrax 
program...only to find that for a mere $500 investment I could become a 
beta tester and have all my work product disappear into the galactic bit 
bucket from time to time.  Sure glad I decided to lurk on their 
discussion list for several months before making that leap.  He's 
dropped the price to 200 bucks now, but that's still expensive to be a 
beta tester when your income depends on what you have to provide to a 
customer.


REB


John Samperi wrote:

>At 02:07 PM 16/09/2006, you wrote:
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>>I'm still using CircuitMaker but it's a Win95 program
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>Wow...ultramodern stuff !! :-D I have Autotrax for DOS
>when a 10MHz machine was fast!! It now works wonderfully
>well under Win XP Pro at 1.4GHz. It does all that I need
>to do and much, much more (like up to 4 layers).
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>Have you looked up Circuitmaker's website? I was looking
>at purchasing it a while ago as it will import my old
>files from Autotrax / Easytrax from what I understand.
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>Regards
>
>John Samperi
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