smArtwork on PC-XT or whatever. Anyone say simpler?
yeah baby !. That was da bomb back in the day. it could drive 8 and 24 needle dot matrix and had a special mode where it would only move one row if needles at a time to get really black printout.
it also would shave the pads on a dip packages if you ran a trace between them.
f1 place track f2 remove track, f3 place pad, f4 remove pad, f5 wide/narrow
dip e 600 24 : draw a dip in eastern direction 600 mil wide 24 pins...
Then i got access to Protel autotrax 1.61 and never looked back. Protel for windows 3.0 , protel 99 , 99se, dxp, dxp2004 , winter 9 summer 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 including vault 3.1 and now Nexus server.
I got my own license back in the 99se days.