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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Board Master, anyone?
Message-ID: <2609@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 90 13:03:46 GMT
References: <1775@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:


>I have designed several boards with PCLO, despite the limitations. As you say,
>it is not up to the standards of some of the professional (and professionally
>priced) products for the IBM and clones, but bears looking at, limitations and
>all.

Er, wasn't PCLO priced around $1,000? Sounds pretty 'professionally priced'
itself, eh? I looked at it long ago but didn't want to spend that much, and
not even have auto-routing. Or I guess I should say 'smart' auto-routing.
I seem to recall that PCLO would draw the trace when you clicked on two
end pads, and it would draw the shortest line between the pads, moving around
any other pads and traces. But that was about all it did. And after running
about ten or so traces you would find that you had a few pads that you couldn't
get to and had to re-run some of the previous traces again. (I played with the
demo version [save disabled] that went around several years ago)

It seemed fun and useful for smaller projects, but not $1000 fun.
Maybe $100-$125

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