The 400 pin limited version (up to 6 layers i think)
is called PCAD Tango but it's the same software.


--- Brad Velander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Andrew,
>       You completely skip the ACCEL product, not the
> company but the product. Accel may have at one time
> been Tango but at version 15 it wasn't. Version 15
> was approx. late 1999 - early 2000 and I was using
> ACCEL at that time, there was no Tango. But it would
> seem that they were still using the Tango name in
> the file structure, I never noticed at the time. At
> version 15 there was ACCEL and PCAD, no Tango.
>       ACCEL existed until just after Altium bought
> ACCEL/PCAD and then all ACCEL users were upgraded to
> PCAD or migrated to another package. I believe
> versions 15 was the last versions of ACCEL.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Brad Velander
> Senior PCB Designer
> Northern Airborne Technology
> #14 - 1925 Kirschner Road,
> Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
> tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
> fax (250) 762-3374
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCAD to Protel 2004
> 
> 
> No offense, but it does not tell you that.
> 
> It tells you that
> 
> A) the company is Accel
> B) the product is Tango
> 
> Tango is the parent application to PCAD. When Accel
> bought Omation and
> gutted the company and product, they made a new
> amalgam, using the
> technology they got from Omation's Windows product
> to bolster their
> crappy Tango application into the new, improved (and
> still crappy) PCAD.
> (As an aside...in fact, it's still just as crappy as
> it ever was. I know
> because I am stuck using it at my place of work...)
> 
> In any case, Tango is not PCAD, it is Tango. That
> they (Tango and PCAD)
> were originally produced by the same company is not
> tantamount to
> content equality, much as it would be silly to call
> Protel Autotrax
> "P99SE"...
> 
> The true irony is that PCAD and its parent code are
> now the sole
> property of the one and only... Altium.
> 
> aj
> 
>  
>
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