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Old 11th Feb 2021, 10:39 am   #14
dglcomp
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Default Re: PCB design -- on a BBC Micro!

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Originally Posted by ortek_service View Post
I always remember Pineapple Systems as being about the only commercial PCB design software on the BBC - But it was rather expensive, as most fairly-primitive PC software was back then.
So I tried doing something in AMX-art, but struggled to get a nice 0.1" step, with printers having n/72 / n/216 increments. And in the end, resorted back to graph paper and acetate, to hand draw my EPROM-Programmer design.
I do also recall working with someone on a BBC BASIC program to create schematic parts symbols and to be able to place and connect these together, to make schematic.

When Acorn moved onto the Archimedes, things were rather easier to do and there was probably several ones for that.
In the early 2000's I acquired from school an A7000 setup complete with monitor and BJC600e printer, also with it I got a copy of Fastrax PCB design software though the computer failed and as such I didn't get used for long.
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