I search a program to create a X10 home automatisation with BASCOM-
8051. Please help me

Christophe.Marbeuhan@W... wrote:
> 
> I search a program to create a X10 home automatisation with BASCOM-
> 8051. Please help me

If you can't get a response here Christophe, it may pay to try the
bascom group, details are at:
http://www.mcselec.com/bascom.htm

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Quick note,
The video PICstick looks absolutely amazing Don! How does this work? I
always thought the video received analogue signals. Does this chip generate
analogue signals?

Regards John
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From: Don McKenzie <don@d...>
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Date: Sunday, 24 December 2000 10:36
Subject: Re: [simmstick] X10 with Bascom-8051


>
>
>Christophe.Marbeuhan@W... wrote:
>>
>> I search a program to create a X10 home automatisation with BASCOM-
>> 8051. Please help me
>
>If you can't get a response here Christophe, it may pay to try the
>bascom group, details are at:
>http://www.mcselec.com/bascom.htm
>
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SimmStick Web Server by David Witt
Hi Don, I've purchased a number of DT106 boards in the past and though
you might be interested to know that I have at DT106 with a 16F874
running a small web server.  I just got it going so I will have to add
some links later but it should respond at http://www.davidwitt.ca  I
used the 40 pin header to interface to an NE2000 Ethernet card and have
it connected to my cable modem. Davedwitt@

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CC: DT Dealers

Cygnus Logic Systems wrote:
> 
> Quick note,
> The video PICstick looks absolutely amazing Don! How does this work? I
> always thought the video received analogue signals. Does this chip generate
> analogue signals?

Yes, it has to in order to have I think it's 1V-PP at 75 Ohms is about
normal.
This one was designed by Lionel, so he may be able to throw some general
light on the subject, but it is Christmas day, so I'm off to do some
general drinking/eating/sleeping/drinking before i have a good sleep.
Then perhaps a quick drink.

just posted this message to the newsletter:
_____________________________________________

Hi Gang,
09:30 Christmas morning here in Melbourne Australia, and we are
preparing to 
spend the day with the family. No doubt I'll be eating and drinking too
much, 
once again. :-)

I hope you all have a great day and are able to enjoy it in a similar
fashion.
Thank you everyone for your support during the last 12 months. 
I hope we can bring you a lot of new SimmStick designs next year, as
there are
many on the drawing board, ready to evolve.

And if you are reading this Christmas day:
Turn off your computer, and go spend the rest of the day with your
friends and 
family. They need you more than I do. :-)

Hope you all get some sort of a break over the festive season, 
and have a great and prosperous new year.

Don...



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At 09:08 12/25/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>SimmStick Web Server by David Witt
>Hi Don, I've purchased a number of DT106 boards in the past and though
>you might be interested to know that I have at DT106 with a 16F874
>running a small web server.  I just got it going so I will have to add
>some links later but it should respond at http://www.davidwitt.ca  I
>used the 40 pin header to interface to an NE2000 Ethernet card and have
>it connected to my cable modem. Davedwitt@

Cool!

Have you seen TINI (www.systronix.com/tini/tini.htm) or Siteplayer
(www.siteplayer.com)?

- Bruce
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 Fast 8051s, embedded Java and much more
 new! 8x1-Wire I/O board for 1-Wire nets
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Don't forget to drink. And then drink.

On Sunday, December 24, 2000 4:38 PM, Don McKenzie [SMTP:don@d...] wrote:
> 
> CC: DT Dealers
> 
> Cygnus Logic Systems wrote:
> > 
> > Quick note,
> > The video PICstick looks absolutely amazing Don! How does this work? I
> > always thought the video received analogue signals. Does this chip generate
> > analogue signals?
> 
> Yes, it has to in order to have I think it's 1V-PP at 75 Ohms is about
> normal.
> This one was designed by Lionel, so he may be able to throw some general
> light on the subject, but it is Christmas day, so I'm off to do some
> general drinking/eating/sleeping/drinking before i have a good sleep.
> Then perhaps a quick drink.
> 
> just posted this message to the newsletter:
> _____________________________________________
> 
> Hi Gang,
> 09:30 Christmas morning here in Melbourne Australia, and we are
> preparing to 
> spend the day with the family. No doubt I'll be eating and drinking too
> much, 
> once again. :-)
> 
> I hope you all have a great day and are able to enjoy it in a similar
> fashion.
> Thank you everyone for your support during the last 12 months. 
> I hope we can bring you a lot of new SimmStick designs next year, as
> there are
> many on the drawing board, ready to evolve.
> 
> And if you are reading this Christmas day:
> Turn off your computer, and go spend the rest of the day with your
> friends and 
> family. They need you more than I do. :-)
> 
> Hope you all get some sort of a break over the festive season, 
> and have a great and prosperous new year.
> 
> Don...
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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I,m trying to program a pic 16f84 4mhz chip by using the stampII and my
problem is every time I push program the program says to me verify failed
0000. Whats going on and what am I doing wrong?

Haywood L Pace wrote:
> 
> I,m trying to program a pic 16f84 4mhz chip by using the stampII and my
> problem is every time I push program the program says to me verify failed
> 0000. Whats going on and what am I doing wrong?

Hi there,
you sent this message to this list some time ago also, and I queried it
then.

can you expand on what you mean?
The question doesn't make a great deal of sense in its current form.
I have never heard of anyone programming a pic with a stamp, and I don't
know why you would want to when there are so many simple programs around
to do it from the serial or parallel port of a PC. 

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30-Dec-2000 
Rick Farmer's PICLoader has now been modified to work with mEL PICBasic. 
http://www.dontronics.com/rfarmer.html 

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Can anybody suggest which Simmstick setup would be suitable for a 
learner to program with. I have started off with David Bensons Easy 
PIC'n, does anybody have any other Title suggestions
Thanks for any help

allen@s... wrote:
> 
> Can anybody suggest which Simmstick setup would be suitable for a
> learner to program with. I have started off with David Bensons Easy
> PIC'n, does anybody have any other Title suggestions
> Thanks for any help

Have a look at:
http://www.dontronics.com/pickaxe.html
http://www.dontronics.com/dt001.html
http://www.dontronics.com/auto.html

The dt001 is usually the easiest approach for PICs. 
Have a look at the pickaxe-a-kit

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4-Jan-2001
Cheap Micro Keyboard. This article describes a very cheap keyboard
interface which can be easily adapted to virtually any micro. It uses
just one low cost IC plus the micro. The software description given is
for a PIC16F84. 
http://www.dontronics.com/code.html

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CC: Dontronics dealer list also.

We designed the:
http://www.dontronics.com/dt107.html
to replace the :
http://www.dontronics.com/dt103.html
and when the current stock of dt103 boards vanish, which will be very
shortly, the idea was to make them obsolete.

Strangely, people are still ordering the dt103. Perhaps it is simply
that users aren't aware of the dt107.
We would like some feedback on this.
Should we still manufacture the dt103?

thanks, Don...

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hi there,

I am wondering if any of you are (or know of) a guru capable of implementing
the following prototype design for me? If so, drop me a line, either with an
idea of the cost or requesting more info if I have not been specific enough.

What I want is a battery powered device to carry out digital I/O and to
record "skin conductance" by passing a fixed .5V current through two skin
electrodes and measuring the conductance in microsiemens. Control will be
via serial port.

I expect the box to be built around an AVR, so the possibility exists for
further custom work to suit specific customer needs (for instance,
generating simple audio stimuli, custom DI/O inputs (light detectors etc),
additional isolated analog inputs (EKG for instance).

Capabilities

POWER
5-9V Battery (for patient safety)


INPUTS
Input 1. "Skin conductance (SC)": recorded by placing a constant .5V across
two surface skin electrodes and returning a measure of conductance
(micromhos) by measuring the current flow: conductance will vary between 0
and 100 micro-Siemen.

An instrumentation or Op amp should measure the current (one circuit I have
seen used a TL062 part with the subject connected between the inverting
input  and a constant .5 V source), reflecting this in its output voltage.
This output is 10Hz low-pass filtered prior to digitization

This is digitised this at a rate of 40Hz with (at least) 20-bit accuracy (I
have seen a suitable new Burr-brown 24 bit A/D part for around USD$10).

The SC circuit should self-calibrate on startup (using two internal
precision resistances) and storing the calibration conductances to calibrate
a simple y = Mx+c output scaling routine in software.

Input 2. Reaction time/digital I/O

The device should have 32 D I/O lines.
16 will be configured as TTL inputs, 16 as outputs. These are used as
"buttons" and "lights".

The device will store a timestamp (millisecond accuracy) and the 16bit input
state whenever the "button" word changes state (polled at >= 1kHz). These
state changes are queued in a FIFO for transfer to the network.

NETWORK
RS-232 with optical isolation for the patient.


FUNCTIONS & PROTOCOLS

A simple serial protocol is envisaged along the lines of

<startcmd> <cmdName [cmdParameter]> <end cmd>

with responses along the lines of
<strt resp> resp bytes <end resp>

The device should be able to respond appropriately to the following request
table:

#    message       action

1. "calibrate"      --> initiate the calibration routine

2. "zero time"      --> sets the timestamp to zero for
                        synchronisation purposes
3. "send time"      --> returns the current timestamp as a 32-bit word

4. "flush buttons"  --> flush any stored button events

5. "get button states"   --> get the most recent button state
                        (returned as a 16 bit word plus a 32-bit time stamp)

6. "button changed" --> returns a byte which is either all 1s or all 0s
                   depending on whether the button state has changed
                   since it was last read. this is implemented by a read
                   setting a byte to zero, and updates setting it to 1.
                   Button changed simply sends this byte down
                   the serial port.

7. "send lights"   --> set the 16-bit digital out port to the value
                       of the next 2 bytes received
8. "get skin"      --> get the most recent conductance value
                    (returned as a 32-bit word plus a 32-bit time stamp)
9. "stream skin"   --> send the skin conductance continuously until stop
                       or another command
10. "end stream"   --> stop the stream if one is active.



cheers,
tim

Dr Timothy Bates  <mailto:tim@m...>
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University
Ph 61 (2) 9850 8623
Fx 61 (2) 9850 6059

CC: Dontronics dealers

Subject:       DT108
       Date:   Sun, 7 Jan 2001 03:29:58 +1100
      From:    "Lionel Theunissen" <lionelth@

Hi Don,

attached is the AVR version of the DT108 software for serial to video
(9600
baud). The 24MHz crystal needs to be replaced with a 10Mhz one for the
AVR.
Lionel...

This new code is written in BASCOM-AVR 
http://www.dontronics.com/basc-avr.html
and can be found at:
http://www.dontronics.com/dt108.html
 
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David Witt's network card project brings up an interesting point -
connecting ISA bus cards to simmsticks.  There are many cheap ISA
cards available including video, disk controllers, sound and other
I/O.  I realise there would have to be drivers written for Atmel or
PIC micro's but you can get programming info. off the web for most of
them.  Is anyone working on anything like this at the moment?

Sorry can't quote on the job, for several reasons including time, etc. But I 
can offer this single piece of crucial advice.

Being Biomedical in nature, there are certain minimum standards you must 
follow.  Battery powering it doesn't get you out of as many as you'd think!  
You NEED to research HIA's (also known as PIA's, or PIO's). These are Human 
Isolation Amplifiers, or Patient Isolation Amplifiers / Op-amps... They take 
the sting out of satisfying some of the standards for building these kind of 
products.  Essentially you get an approved HIA/PIA/PIO and as long as you 
follow the design notes on the patient side, you can do (within some 
constraints) whatever you like on the non-patient side.

Sure it's only a prototype, and you're not selling the prototype to anyone, 
but when you go to production you want to be production ready, so you want 
to get these things sorted out as early in the design cycle as possible, 
since it costs least to put them in now, than to have to put them in later 
and resubmit for testing...

Note that AFAIK the TL062 is NOT approved as a PIA/HIA/PIO...

David.



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Hello David

> Being Biomedical in nature, there are certain minimum standards you must
> follow.  Battery powering it doesn't get you out of as many as
> you'd think!
> You NEED to research HIA's (also known as PIA's, or PIO's). These are Human
> Isolation Amplifiers, or Patient Isolation Amplifiers / Op-amps...

I was thinking of a very simple (if such a thing is possible :-) EEG unit.
This is for personal use not resale so it's more a case of the vast
over-engineering that takes place when you design a one-off thing for
yourself, rather than handling legalities. I'm thinking of an updated version
of the HAL unit described by Steve Ciarcia in BYTE magazine in the mid-1980's.
The op-amps have improved greatly in the intervening years ...

Do you know if there are any HIA's that would be suitable and don't cost a
bucket of money?

Thanks
Giovanni
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Emrich [mailto:dav_ucc@h...]
> Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2001 11:25 p.m.
> To: simmstick@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [simmstick] tender for skin conductance prototype
>
>
>
> Sorry can't quote on the job, for several reasons including time,
> etc. But I
> can offer this single piece of crucial advice.
>
> Being Biomedical in nature, there are certain minimum standards you must
> follow.  Battery powering it doesn't get you out of as many as
> you'd think!
> You NEED to research HIA's (also known as PIA's, or PIO's). These are Human
> Isolation Amplifiers, or Patient Isolation Amplifiers / Op-amps...
> They take
> the sting out of satisfying some of the standards for building
> these kind of
> products.  Essentially you get an approved HIA/PIA/PIO and as long as you
> follow the design notes on the patient side, you can do (within some
> constraints) whatever you like on the non-patient side.
>
> Sure it's only a prototype, and you're not selling the prototype to anyone,
> but when you go to production you want to be production ready, so you want
> to get these things sorted out as early in the design cycle as possible,
> since it costs least to put them in now, than to have to put them in later
> and resubmit for testing...
>
> Note that AFAIK the TL062 is NOT approved as a PIA/HIA/PIO...
>
> David.
>
>
>
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>Hello David

Hi Giovanni,... come stai?

> > Being Biomedical in nature, there are certain minimum standards you must
> > follow.  Battery powering it doesn't get you out of as many as
> > you'd think!
> > You NEED to research HIA's (also known as PIA's, or PIO's). These are 
>Human
> > Isolation Amplifiers, or Patient Isolation Amplifiers / Op-amps...
>
>I was thinking of a very simple (if such a thing is possible :-) EEG unit.
>This is for personal use not resale so it's more a case of the vast
>over-engineering that takes place when you design a one-off thing for
>yourself, rather than handling legalities. I'm thinking of an updated 
>version
>of the HAL unit described by Steve Ciarcia in BYTE magazine in the 
>mid-1980's.
>The op-amps have improved greatly in the intervening years ...

Yes they have! I'm not familiar with the particular circuits you refer to in 
Circuit Cellar, but I do know of the magazine,...

>Do you know if there are any HIA's that would be suitable and don't cost a 
>bucket of money?

Yeah, there are some National Semiconductor units (don't know the number off 
the top of my head). And I believe Maxim does them too. They're not so 
expensive actually, as long as you can get them in small qty's but if you're 
doing it for yourself, and you're working for a company, then you can 
probably get free samples. The real cost would come if you wanted to 
actually get the gear certified,... that's where they get your money.

I haven't been in touch with medical electronics like this for years, so I 
don't have any recent info, but you should get a fair way on www.google.com 
with the phrase Patient Isolation Amplifiers,...

Note that PIA's are generally pretty good on other specs apart from the 
patient-isolation one,.. so you could either do a unity gain PIA, (would 
that be a patient buffer??) followed by an "ordinary" good quality amplifier 
such as are available today.  Or depending on the overall topology around 
the amplifer, you might be able to do it all in the PIA. If you do go for 
the PIA approach (and I'd recommend at least researching it, and if you can 
swing it without breaking the bank, I'd use it too!) be careful of doing 
anything that breaches the patient isolation barrier. I mean, that's the 
whole point of the circuit isn't it!? :-)

I only say that last part because I've seen just that kind of problem.  Very 
carefully designed isolated supplies etc. etc. and someone commonned up all 
the grounds,... completely bypassed half of the isolation circuits!!

Good luck with the project.

David.


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Now updated with schematics and free code.
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17-Jan-2001 
Rick Farmer's PICLoader has now been modified to work with CCS compiler
and MPLAB as well as mEL PICbasic PRO.
http://www.dontronics.com/rfarmer.html 

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Forwarded with Alan's permission.

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DT006 AVR programming software available

I am developing a simple ISP programmer to use with the www.dontronics.com 
DT-006 AVR board. The excellent gcc compiler is available for the Atmel 
AVR, but the available programmers that I found don't support the DT-006 
board, as it has slightly different parallel port connections.

The goal is to make a very simple to use and efficient programming 
environment for the DT-006 with gcc-avr.

The design of this software allows programming the board from the makefile 
upon successful compilation, with a command-line interface suitable for 
make or batch files.

The program is currently nearing beta release and I am looking for 
interested beta testers. The successful testing so far on my own DT-006 
board includes only the AT90S2313 cpu, but according to specifications 
should work with other parts up to at least 8K as well, including the 
AT90S8515 and AT90S8535. Currently byte mode programming is supported.

The design of the software is such that it could be made pin-reconfigurable 
to handle other pinout connections, such as the Kanda type programmer, but 
that is not currently implemented.

The plan is to get some beta testing feedback, debug and incorporate some 
improvements, and release as a free software product, possibly under the 
GNU license.

The current version of the software is windows 9x based, this may change in 
the future to incorporate more platforms. The current beta should run on 
DOS as well as windows 95, 98, and windows ME. It will not run on windows 
NT or 2000 at this time due to i/o restrictions.

Anyone interested in participating in the beta testing drop me an email.

Alan.Biocca at usa.net

I'm looking for a reasonably priced ( I guess that means cheap) schematic 
capture -PC board layout program combination that will do double sided 
boards. I'd like an output to a laser jet printer (or inkjet for that 
matter) so I can do easy transfer of the foil pattern to copper.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Len

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Try Eagle - http://www.cadsoftusa.com/ - there's a free version of
that available.

- -Randy Glenn

This coming from the guy with a system tray 7 icons wide... by 2
tall...
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- -----Original Message-----
From: Len Schaier [mailto:lschaier@a...]
Sent: January 20, 2001 14:34
To: simmstick@e...
Subject: [simmstick] Schematic capture/PC board layout


I'm looking for a reasonably priced ( I guess that means cheap)
schematic 
capture -PC board layout program combination that will do double
sided 
boards. I'd like an output to a laser jet printer (or inkjet for that
matter) so I can do easy transfer of the foil pattern to copper.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Len


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here is a snippet of feeback from one of my dealers who is designing a
new range of programmers, details soon to be released:

> P.S. saw your post CC in simmstick about programmer, tell him
> he better support standard KANDA/STK200 pin compatible programmers
> and it will work with my programmer. The simple programmer you
> use with just parallel port works only with BASCOM, not CV or ICCAVR,
> they want at least STK200 compatible and mine works there. And tell
> him he needs to support NT/2000, since it is more common here that
> people swap over from 98 to these OS, since 98 is a bad thing
> hanging it self all the time. 95 was mush better.

dt006 is already codevision and soon to be iccavr compatible.
I sent Richard an assembled unit so he would put the driver into his
products.

Don...

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The Little "rAVeR!" AVR & Basic Kit http://www.dontronics.com/dt006.html

Len,

Check out the protel site www.protel.com I think.

There is a free version of the old DOS based software for download.

I used thsi way beck when you had to but it. It was pretty good at the
time.

Now I use Protel 3.5 ish, and must say, it's a pain in the butt. I have
tried the demos of Protel 98 etc, but find them equally buggy. These
version are not free though.

Rgds...

...Andy

Len Schaier wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a reasonably priced ( I guess that means cheap) schematic
> capture -PC board layout program combination that will do double sided
> boards. I'd like an output to a laser jet printer (or inkjet for that
> matter) so I can do easy transfer of the foil pattern to copper.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Len
> 
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Louis Puccio wrote:
> 
> don
> 
> hi
> 
> would you (or your company) be able to design something for me? it has to
> do with sensors and digital gauges. i want to measure timing in a car
> digitally instead of with a timing light.
> 
> thanks
> 

Hi Louis,
I have been out off doing custom designs for many years now, however
instead of going through my normal routine with people such as yourself
in order to help them, I have decided to throw these potential projects
at my little group of readers in my SimmStick group starting with yous,
so this may prove interesting.

If any member is in a position to help Louis, you will need to contact
hin directly at the email address in this header.

Cheers Don...

> In article <3A66A62A.822A936B@d...> you wrote:
> 
> > Don Bruder wrote:
> >>
> >> <sigh>
> >>
> >> I walked into the local Radio Shack today looking for 1-2 amp 7812 and
> >> 7912 voltage regulators in TO-3 cases.
> 
> > enjoyed your story very much Don.
> > As Ian said, we have them as Tandy in Australia, but I have visited them
> > overseas, and they are identical in all respects.
> 
> > I walked in a few days ago, and hovered around the racks of peg boards
> > with the little bags of components. I do this on a regular basis, so
> > that I can quote equivalent catalog numbers for my kit assembly
> > instructions.
> 
> > The young sales lady that approached me was being very honest.
> 
> > YL: Can I help you?
> > D:  Nah! Just browsing around thanks.
> > YL: Thank God! I know nothing about those little parts.
> > D:  :-)
> 
> > Don McKenzie    mailto:don@d...      http://www.dontronics.com
> 
> > The World's Largest Range of Atmel/AVR  & PICmicro Hardware and Software
> > Free Basic Compiler and Programmer http://www.dontronics.com/runavr.html
> > The Little "rAVeR!" AVR & Basic Kit http://www.dontronics.com/dt006.html

-- 
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The World's Largest Range of Atmel/AVR  & PICmicro Hardware and Software
Free Basic Compiler and Programmer http://www.dontronics.com/runavr.html
The Little "rAVeR!" AVR & Basic Kit http://www.dontronics.com/dt006.html

Len,

Check out the protel site www.protel.com I think.

There is a free version of the old DOS based software for download.

I used thsi way beck when you had to but it. It was pretty good at the
time.

Now I use Protel 3.5 ish, and must say, it's a pain in the butt. I have
tried the demos of Protel 98 etc, but find them equally buggy. These
version are not free though.

Rgds...

...Andy

Len Schaier wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a reasonably priced ( I guess that means cheap) schematic
> capture -PC board layout program combination that will do double sided
> boards. I'd like an output to a laser jet printer (or inkjet for that
> matter) so I can do easy transfer of the foil pattern to copper.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Len
>
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I can't recommend a combo, but, here's a free PCB layout package.

http://www.expresspcb.com/

> 
> Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:34:28 -0500
>    From: Len Schaier <lschaier@a...>
> Subject: Schematic capture/PC board layout
> 
> I'm looking for a reasonably priced ( I guess that means 
> cheap) schematic 
> capture -PC board layout program combination that will do 
> double sided 
> boards. I'd like an output to a laser jet printer (or inkjet for that 
> matter) so I can do easy transfer of the foil pattern to copper.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>