[sdiy] Protel spam?

[Jim Patchell]

    Funny you should mention Protel Spam...I just got "Orcad" Spam, now owned
by Cadence....

   "If I act now, I can get Orcad for $9000 instead of $12000!"

    What I would like to know...what every happened to low cost solutions from
both of these companies.

    When I purchased Orcad Capture 12 some odd years ago, it was $500.

    When I purchased Protel Autotrax 12 some odd years ago ( which, in my
opinion, still beats Protels fancy windows version to this day), it was only
$1000.  I realize there has been a bit of inflation over the years, but I
cannot see how in 12 years the price of these packages has gone up by almost a
factor of 10!

    -Jim

Theo wrote:

> Protel was recently bought by Altium.
> Altium also has Circuitmaker under their hood.
> Circuitmaker compares to Target 3001 in both features and price.
>
> It seems Altium started a wide direct mail campaign.
> I got e-mail spam from them
> (including apologies for obtaining my e-mail address in a unconventional
> way)
> And a week later a load of folders and a CD over snail mail.
> (including apologies for obtaining my home address in a unconventional way)
>
> Theo
>
> From: Alex <alex at xatomic.ch>
>
> > Hello
> >
> >
> > I once used a trial version of Protel99. Well it wasn't that bad. And the
> > 3D-View of the circuit
> > board was a funny feature, too. But now I use Target 3001. A great
> > PCB/schematic software package
> > from a small german company (http://www.ibfriedrich.com). It contains a
> very
> > good autorouter
> > (contour & shape based) and cost less than a tenth of Protel (about 400
> > bucks, the 1000pin limited version).
> > But in most projects I do the most of routing in my brain, as it's really
> > hard to get good results in critical designs.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Jaco Sloof
> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:59 PM
> > To: SynthDIYmailinglist
> > Subject: [sdiy] Protel spam?
> >
> >
> > What the heck is this with protel stuff, they still try to reach me
> > for buying their SOOOO good pcb-software...
> >
> > Not to be annoying or anything, but...
> >
> > Why let software rout when its much more of a mindjob to fix the
> > pcb yourself, I did... with a waterproof marker on transparents...
> >
> > Now i just use Boardcreator 5.0, freeware, and does the job at 285
> > kB... (INCLUDING THE ALREADY 200 LOADED COMPONENTS...)
> >
> > so im just gona have to ignore the protel division?
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
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