Re: Best Value for Schematic Capture & Layout Software ???

David Kelly <n4hhe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bjarne Bäckström wrote:

I'll upgrade to Snow Leopard as soon as it's rolled out in September.
Then I'll try kicad again. For now I'm happy with McCAD
<http://www.mccad.com/> (which I've been using since 1990), and gEDA.
:-)

I forgot when I started with McCAD, perhaps 1991? None of the PC EDA
tools were running under Windows yet, all were DOS graphics. I had 6 or
7 demo packages from everyone and spent 2 hours each night with each for
a week. Couldn't get some to work on my PC in only 2 hours what with
video card drivers and mouse drivers and memory managers. The 2
Macintosh based packages worked instantly.

I had about the same experiences, and it was the 'worked instantly'
part that got me hooked. I actually ran McCAD on a Mac Plus for a few
months, waiting for a IIsi to arrive. I agree on your criticism; I have
learned to live with the warts, mainly because McCAD otherwise is so
intuitive to work with. Now I'm retired, but I still do a design now and
then for oldtime customers.
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