Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!tekbspa!oblio!charlie From: charlie@oblio.UUCP (Charlie Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: PC Board Designer/Atari ST Software Bargain Keywords: ST design circuit software Message-ID: <508@oblio.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 17:02:55 GMT Organization: Counterpoint Computers, Inc. San Jose CA 95131 Lines: 30 There is a local store here in San Jose, called San Jose Computer, which is selling the Abacus/Data Becker PC Board Designer software package for $50.00 new. The package lists for $249.95 or something like that. Seems like they bought about 200 packages and need to blow them out. If you are a hardware hacker/hobbyist and designing boards of nontrivial complexity, this package is a hell of a deal for this price. I bought one and have been playing with it for a couple of days. Very nice; includes an auto-router. It prints out 2 to 1 enlarged component/trace layouts on an Epson FX (MX), 24 pin printers, and HPGL plotters ; will do boards of up to about 6.5" by 4.5". Component library capability will handle components of up to 120 connection points. Single and double sided boards are supported. I like it. The phone number for San Jose Computer is (408) 224-8575. I have no association with the store except for customer. ___________________________________________________________________________ Charlie Richardson Acer America, Inc. 2127 Ringwood Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 VOICE: (408) 434-0190 UUCP: {hplabs,unixprt}!oblio!charlie