31 May
2007
31 May
'07
11:33 a.m.
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
Beyond a certain level of complexity though it makes
sense to separate
schematics onto multiple pages according to circuit function anyway, otherwise
printing the thing would require either such an enormous sheet of paper as to
be unmanageable, or such a tiny level of detail as to be unreadable. Same goes
for viewing on screen.
(I was looking at schematics for Acorn's Risc PC the other day for someone; if
put onto one sheet of paper it'd be around 5ft x 7ft in size - and as a lot
of the functionality is provided by custom chips, schematic-wise it's not even
*that* complex compared to a lot of systems)
Dave Thompson (Microcornucopia magazine) took the XT schematics and
combined them into a 24" x 36" ? poster. It was quite handy