UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum - View Single Post - PCB design -- on a BBC Micro!

ortek_service · 11th Feb 2021, 9:34 am

I always remember Pineapple Systems as being about the only commercial PCB design software on the BBC - But it was rather expensive, as most fairly-primitive PC software was back then.
So I tried doing something in AMX-art, but struggled to get a nice 0.1" step, with printers having n/72 / n/216 increments. And in the end, resorted back to graph paper and acetate, to hand draw my EPROM-Programmer design.
I do also recall working with someone on a BBC BASIC program to create schematic parts symbols and to be able to place and connect these together, to make schematic.

When Acorn moved onto the Archimedes, things were rather easier to do and there was probably several ones for that.

11th Feb 2021, 9:34 am	#11
ortek_service Octode Join Date: May 2018 Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Posts: 1,440	Re: PCB design -- on a BBC Micro! I always remember Pineapple Systems as being about the only commercial PCB design software on the BBC - But it was rather expensive, as most fairly-primitive PC software was back then. So I tried doing something in AMX-art, but struggled to get a nice 0.1" step, with printers having n/72 / n/216 increments. And in the end, resorted back to graph paper and acetate, to hand draw my EPROM-Programmer design. I do also recall working with someone on a BBC BASIC program to create schematic parts symbols and to be able to place and connect these together, to make schematic. When Acorn moved onto the Archimedes, things were rather easier to do and there was probably several ones for that.