[rescue] Re: Tags and previous owners

[Ken Hansen]

There are companies that specialize in getting emailed circuit diagrams and
making PCBs out of them for very little money (prototypes/one-offs are not a
problem). Check out a recent copy of Nuts & Volts magazine for pointers to
vendors...

As for Framemaker - I love it, I wish I could get a *dirt cheap* recent license
for my Sun Ultra workstation at home... Once you learn the way Framemaker
works, it is quite intuitive.

At a former employer (Bellcore), we used Framemaker for everything, including
presentation slides (!), MS-Word was available for those who were, um, not
technical... ;^)

Ken



"Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
>
> > A Lot of CAE shops use(d) Sun/Solbourne stuff.  I believe the original
> > Commodore Amiga was designed on a Sun 3/60.
>
> Really?  I woulda thought that it would have been designed on paper, based
> on the age of it and that it was done by a bunch lowly hackers rather than
> proper engines (see how much more effective lowly hackers can be
> sometimes?).  Could be wrong though.
>
> Speaking of designing hardware, there is something I've been wondering
> about for some time.  Is there a way, for fairly low money, to design
> boards on a computer, then do something like print them out for component
> soldering?  Maybe print them on something like a T-Shirt transfer (IE, the
> printing on special paper transfers to the board).  I supposed that
> getting a laser cutter and sprayable silver could do, albeit rather
> wasteful of silver.  What about retrofitting a plotter with a silver pen?
> I think I've seen those around.