Homebrew PCBs

JGraham, I am speaking from my experience. Not what I have read. I did not
mean to buy into a long discussion on Operating systems. There are other
forums for that. I will drop this subject and I urge others to do the same.
I personally apologize for allowing myself to add "off topic" to this list.
....and that being said, on with the PCBs... I have been watching the
conversation about using a plotter to directly lay down etch resist to the
board. I am interested in playing with this myself. Could some of you add
more info on this subject?
-Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "JGraham" <jgraham@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB design software


> hogwash...
> I urge you to check out
> http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=10822
>
> JGraham
>
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 19:37, Mike Putnam wrote:
> > I have to differ with your opinion. I have a network, also. I have
different
> > OS on the network. The only time I have ever had a fatal crash where I
could
> > not go back and retrieve my data was on a WIN2000 machine. Two of my
> > machines have XP and the others have Win 98. I will never again trust my
> > data to Win2000 or ME. Of course there have been some service packs for
2000
> > since that downfall. XP is a very stable operating system. I have never
had
> > problems with my system. The only problems I have seen others have is
when
> > you try to use XP home edition on a network or when you use an older
program
> > that is not 32 bit capable. I use XP professional. Most problems I have
seen
> > with networks and operating systems are normally problems with
networking in
> > general. Setting up the network on the XP machine was the easiest and
least
> > time consuming of any that I have ever done. I do not like Microsoft,
> > either. But I do have to say that this XP system has saved me a lot of
work.
> > Do not use a DOS based program on a newer Windows OS. If you do this,
don't
> > blame your crash on the OS.
> > -Mike
> >