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Originally Posted by dave koller
LOL Eagle would do fine for the "PRO"..
Gone are the days of wire-wrap.
Laying out boards - by hand - with exact-o knife and rolls of black paper tape in various tape widths.
Squinting at the light table - haha auto routing - yep, you WERE the auto router!
little pads and IC layouts - stuck on by hand... Netlists?????
Did some 14" X 14" controls yep with TTL then CMOS - 30-40 chips on the board - traces between pins -- "pro" days were much different then...  |
Yeh, and how about memory boards with dozens of parallel tracks connecting all the memory chips, back in the days when leading edge technology was 2k*8 static ram!! Those tracks drove your eyes nuts!