The really truly one was 8" :) 5-1/4" was "mini"...
Yes, the Racal Redac CAD at my university stored onto 8" floppies. But I never used it because all the reasonable time slots were always booked out.
Too right, it's why I haven't done anything more than take a look.
Grant.
The files all identify themselves as "version 13," whereas the actual EasyPC is up to version 14 these days. So perhaps the business model is... the maintenance users of the current version are essentially paying for new development, but WestDev can take the last major version, re-brand it a bit, and make an additional small bit of income by re-selling it to DesignSpark, Advanced Circuits, etc. to use it for a very modest price?
WestDev can count on the vast majority of their users -- or at least those who actually have some spare cash -- always wanting the "latest and greatest" version, so I wouldn't think they'd have much to lose with this approach...
That is all idle speculation, though. Although if you ever find yourself in the U.K. and know of a good brewpub near Tewesbury, I could point you to the right individuals at WestDev to ask... :-)
---Joel
Hey, don't forget to invite me, that's where I live! :)
Funny to see this on an international newsgroup, it's a small rural town
- population only ~10k.
However, being local doesn't mean you know all of them :-)
When I was in Sunnyvale a couple of weeks ago the client engineer and I spotted two Irish pubs and went into one of them. Next day at the company we were visiting one of the guys said "Where? Where is it?". He lives there and has a good old Irish family name ...
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Or a local copy of everything, on that computer.
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