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From: amir@booboo.UUCP (Amir Majidimehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tango Board Layout
Message-ID: <357@booboo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 12:16:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: booboo.357
Posted: Fri May 29 12:16:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 31-May-87 08:44:46 EDT
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Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Sorry about posting this.  I couldn't mail it...

In article <-3977194@bbimg>, mikey@bbimg.UUCP writes:
> 
> I was recently told about Tango-PCB, and seeing as how it will read the netlist
> right from SCHEMA and let me do a check print of the film on an IBM type
> printer, I was impressed, especially for the suggested $495 retail.  Before I
> plunk down the cash, has anyone here on the net used Tango-PCB?

I have used the Tango-PCB to design relatively small pc boards.  The program
is extremely flexible for the price and I has just about every editing 
feature that you would want.  The only problem is the user interface.  It
does *not* have any menues.  It makes heavy use of alternate and
controll/function keys.  They do give you an overlay for the function keys.
It is also copy protected.
>  What about
> the companion autorouter program TangoRoute?  Buying both brings the total to
> $1000, but the last board I had made cost me more than that for the layout and
> 4 prepro samples!  Being able to make the films direct and then just send out
> for board manufacture really appeals to me, but I still would like to hear
> from someone who has used either or both of these programs.

Haven't used the autorouter.  I send the file electronically that makes the
prototypes.  I just do a quick print on my dot-matrix printer.  It cost
about $100 to get a prototype made this way.


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Amir H. Majidimehr
Gould Inc, Computer Systems Division
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