I'm old, but I still remember this morning, when I last used it. I also remember routing a 4-layer board in about 10 minutes, whereas it took bEAGLE two and a half weeks to route it, and then it took another week to hand-edit out all bEAGLE's flaws, e.g. bEAGLE's inability to reconcile imperial vs. metric units, and properly use the available space, leaving 5 mils between trace and via when there was an entire 100 mm available. Now, bEAGLE's free for small 2-layer boards, and costs relatively little for somewhat larger 4-layer boards, but the full-up version costs enough that one has a right to expect something. Their library handling is another thing ...


Yes, you're right ... 16 colors ... at 1024x768 but it was adequate (I'm color-blind anyway...)


Absolutely not! I keep the 'net away from useful work.


Not very much, but we had 120 MB floppies (LS-120's)


The modern stuff does little by practical standards. "kewl" doesn't by you much. It suffers from "creeping featureism" which reduces productivity.


It IS Windows' fault. At least in that one <b?CAN ignore the arrow keys, pg-up, pg-dn, etc. in the software. With he evolution of Windows+mouse, we got the multi-layered 12-level menus that require each drop-down menu be dismissed before one can return to useful work. Not every programmer does that, but many do, and it's annoying. It turns a 1-second operation into a 2 minute operation that you have to do 500 times every task. That's why I could, with the DOS program redraw a rather large schematic set (one sheet in the DOS version, yielding one netlist) in half a day, when the team of three draftsmen using the Windows tool took four weeks.



Internet predates Windows. In fact, it predates the PC. I don't recall ever having to call for a driver. They did distribute them via modem, of course.

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