"Reg Edwards" wrote:

Some years back, after retirement, I bought out of curiosity a copy of
Electronics Work Bench. It was and still is the only such program I
have ever had my hands on. I think it arrived on a collection of
floppies.

After a few days curiosity was satisfied. Then I junked it.
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Reg

Just an explanation to the person who asked:

Reg is one of the few people in the world who have no use for a spice
simulator. He writes lots of very good calculation programs and knows
electronics like he had a built-in electronics simulator in his brain. He
has studied electronics during a long life and knows what he talks about.

For other people though, a spice simulator can be very useful.

Multisim has a very bad reputation because is has a lot of bugs.
The best version of EWB is 5.c
After that version multisim replaced the central parts of the program and
the new program had a lot of problems.

Nobody uses later versions of multisim, so we do not know if they have
solved the bugs yet.

EWB 5 is used by beginners, because it has a very good user interface.
But even EWB 5 is not regarded as a good spice simulator.

Professionals often like the freeware spice simulator Switchercad3 from
Linear Technology. http://www.linear.com/company/software.jsp

I use EWB 5.c myself, because it is good enough for my purposes, and it
is a lot easier to work with than Switchercad3. But I use Switchercad3
sometimes too, because people in newsgroups often give a circuit in
switchercad's text file format.

Another advantage for EWB is that it has been around a while, so there
are many add-ons to the program, like a converter from EWB circuit to an
Eagle layout (Eagle is a freeware layout program for circuit boards).
Translation programs from ewb to standard netlist is also available.

After multisim changed the program there was a big wave of protests among
the EWB users and buyers. New buyers demanded to get a copy of the old
working program when they bought the new version, and Multisim accepted
that and delivered a EWB version 5c for free, on demand, to all buyers of
the new program.

I don't know if they still do.


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Roger J.