Got this cdrom here calling itself "PC Electronics Plus",  the
descriptive caption under the title reads "Tutorials, Circuit
Analysis, Circuit Design, Schematic CAD, and many more great Electronic
Programs"...

I've been spending some time today poking around with what's on here, 
looking at stuff.

Some of it is pretty old,  and *really* clunky.  Much of it is dos-based. 
Only a couple of the packages seemed to need windows (apparently 3.1,  not
95 or later!).  Some of them wouldn't run properly -- it amazes me how long
stuff like that can hang around and propagate itself.  One or two locked up
the desqview window that I was running things in,  and one locked up the
whole machine forcing a reset.

There was one set of packages that included schematic _and_ board design
software.  I could get the board part to load sample stuff,  but the
schematic part wouldn't work for me.  Then there was another that offered
to load the sample data,  but didn't appear to do anything when I selected
that option.

I'm going to play around with this stuff some more,  and see what I can
come up with,  as far as anything satisfactory with regard to being able to
do either schematics or board layout.

If any of you folks know of later packages,  ones that actually work,  I'd
be interested in hearing about it.  I'd also be particularly interested in
hearing of freeware or open-source stuff,  especially after wading through
100K doc files full of definitions of shareware and lots of legalese, 
disclaimers,  and similar rot.

You guys have any favorites in this sort of thing?

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