15 Apr
2004
15 Apr
'04
11:50 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:04:59AM -0700, vrs wrote:
I think this is one of the things that makes or breaks
the usability of CAD
software.
Indeed... My experiences with professional copies of OrCAD 10 years ago
was that we, too, spent lots of time adding parts to the library. The
good news is that for what we were doing (DEC peripherals), once our
odd parts were in, we reused that work a lot.
I was able to design library parts for a number of
Gxxx, Mxxx, and Wxxx DEC
modules (needed for the TC08 dectape controller) in just a little over a day
with the Eagle CAD software. These parts need very elaborate symbol views
(essentially logic diagrams, needed to make the schematics that use them
readable).
Cool! I'd love to see that.
BTW, do you have an approximate cost for your TC08? Is it posi- or negi-
bus? I have an -8/i and several -8/Ls (the -8/i is negi-bus) and a few
TU-56 drives (one on a TD8E, several on a couple of TC-11s). I'd be
curious to see if your TC-08 replica would work for me.
-ethan
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