Anyone out there have a running version of Digicad? It was an old DOS based system which used a dongle between the parallel port and the printer. I have an archived plat I need to print and my new computer is all USB. I'm stuck!
TIA
oh no.
I haven't seen Digicad since 20 years ago 🙁
That's about right Dave. I have paper copies of all my plats, except for a group of about 50 which I simply cannot find. We've moved and I've moved my office twice so I KNOW they're here...somewhere.
It's killing me that I can see the various files that make up the drawing, and that's it.
To cap things off, the computer that has all this stuff on it has the old 6-pin DIN connector for the keyboard, and the keyboard is dead as a doornail.
Don't tell anyone but the company I worked for would use the hardware key to start the program then you could pull it out and give it to someone else to get there's started.
Modern hardware locks can now detect if the lock has been removed but not back then with DigiCad.
Digicad was a gis type program supported by a bunch of Cubans
in Miami. Fenstermaker in Lafayette, Louisiana was a big dealer.
I would think that Fenstermaker would be able to print more
copies. Best to ask, though.
We have had the same problem with the old style dongles also.
You should be able to get a USB to serial adapter cable, which might give you a way to connect it.
The software was also known as InFoCAd and InFoCAD PRO. I have thousands of files in their format that I can not open or convert. I would be happy to purchase view/conversion software. Does anyone have a source?
Does anyone need help still with digicad or infocad?
hello
do u have a version of digicad or infocad software
Weird, too, that it shows up in the time line; when the last post was in 2011...
The old school Party Chief at the company I worked for in the early 1990s hated Digicad. Not because he had to use it but because every time the office changed something in the drawing it changed all the point numbers. It put Cogo points at the end of every line etc., even on the text insert points if I remember correctly, no descriptions and the numbers floated, weird program. They bought it to replace the zbasic, non graphic, program called Sierra Cybernetics Cogo.