OrCAD PCB Manual

Does anyone on this list have a manual for OrCAD PCB for DOS that they would be willing to part with? I have all of the manuals for STD and need this last one.

Chris

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Trying to use Yahoo groups is next to impossible. I have to turn off my proxy host (popup and ad blocker) to get anywhere, and each time I try to access it I find that Yahoo has forgotten my password and I have to go through the entire new password/change it back routine. Not worth the trouble, really.

Chris

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I finally figured out the problem with Yahoo groups. I turned off my proxy host momentarily, bookmarked the sign-in URL, and then turned the proxy host back on. Now I won't have to expose myself to popup and banner ads when I sign in. Too many of those contain viruses.

I'll give that Old DOS OrCAD group a try, but it's less than a month old.

Chris

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----- Original Message ----- From: "qrk" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.cad Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 7:59 PM Subject: Re: OrCAD PCB Manual

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You can get popup blockers without all that trouble. Google toolbar does it for example.

Graham

It's the same group of guys that was in another group for years. I just moved the group because when yahoo ate egroups, they stuck us in the "adult" section.

You only need to use email to talk to the group, set your prefs to not do HTML email, and you'll only get little taglines on the messages.

I wouldn't want to part with my manual, but I could certainly answer any questions you might have.

I tried the Google toolbar a few months ago, but it is not compatible with Windows 95. I still use that system as I can shut it off and use my DOS CAD software at full machine speed rather than going through the DOS emulator that slows things down to the speed of a 386/20e.

Chris

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Dave, Thank you for the offer. I'll keep it in mind if anything comes up. I don't run into any real difficulties with OrCAD PCB, it's just that having the manual readily available is a comfort thing. I have all of the manuals for SDT.

The last hurdle I had with OrCAD many years ago was in dealing with nonheterogenous components, specifically with ICs like the CA3096 and CA3046 that have dissimilar functions in the same package. Tango handles them perfectly, but that software is difficult to use when flooding groundplane. And PCAD didn't handle it at all until they came out with version 5.0. OrCAD was the best compromise I could come up with to suit my design practices. I use those transistor arrays a lot for temperature compensation.

Chris

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That's why we keep using it! It works!

I know the feeling. I see users of other software cussing and discussing different ways to do things that in old dos orcad are so trivial that it's hard to imagine what all the fuss is about. At least it's hard until you pick up one of the "new and improved" packages..

Tried W98SE ? It's much better than 95.

Graham

I beg to differ. Depends on your computer and a lot of luck, but for a LOT of people Win98 (either edition) is an absolute POS. I've seen Win95 be more stable on numerous systems -- and yes, Win98 can be more stable on other systems. If Win95 is stable for this guy, don't recommend that he go to anything else, unless he's got the horsepower to got to XP.

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