Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!crocus!clhorslin
From: clhorslin@crocus.waterloo.edu (Cheryl Horslin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tools needed for math test task
Keywords: pc tools math
Message-ID: <12289@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 15:15:50 GMT
References: <152@spectra.COM>
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In article <152@spectra.COM> camara@spectra.COM (Raland Camara) writes:
>
>     I presently own an IBM 286 clone.  I am looking for some hardware/
>software which I can use to write Mathematics Tests.  I am basically
>going to need something which can draw some basic diagrams, draw text in 
>various fonts, display different size fonts on the same screen, and 
>lastly allow me to move these things around on the screen.  It would also 
>be great if it was easy to print these things out on an 8.5" X 11" page.  
>Lastly, menus or something similarly easy would be the preferable user
>interface.  I assume that I am going to need a mouse and some software
>package.  Does anyone out there have any reccommendations?

I would think that one of the less expensive Cadd packages would
handle the problem.  I have experience with Generic Cadd which I
believe can handle everything you ask for.  You would have to
purchase some extra modules for fonts and printing out on a dot
matrix printer.