On Friday, December 22, 1995 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Charles Lane wrote:
> In article <4b767m$d...@pravda.aa.msen.com> jweis...@viewmi.pnet.msen.com (John Weisgerber) writes:
> >We use an old schematic capture program called SCHEMA from a company called
> >Omation which appears to be gone. We are currently having problems locating
> >Video drivers for newer VGA cards to work with this program. My questions:
> >Does anybody know if Omation still exists - bought out, name change, or
> >other?
> Bought out by (?orcad? one of the big guys), new owner co. doesn't support
> but provides an upgrade path to their own products. I have a phone # in my
> notes of (619)554-1000 from when I tried to track down Omation last year. Call
> it and see if anyone answers :-)
> >Does anybody know where drivers for SCHEMA could be gotten?
> I doubt if you can get updated drivers, but you should still be able to run
> with your display in "plain vanilla" VGA mode.
> --
> Chuck Lane "I wish to God these calculations
> Drexel Univ. Particle Physics had been accomplished by steam."
> la...@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu --C. Babbage

I still use Schema III and still have the original 3-ring binder (remember when software came with a manual?) and the last release on disk, version 3.34. The program came with lots of video drivers, many rather generic, I've had no problem using it with modern monitors ... as long as the monitor has a VGA connector, it will likely work.
Bill Whitlock
engineer_bill@verizon.net
Ventura, CA, USA

On Sunday, 4 September 2022 at 23:01:01 UTC-7, Bill Whitlock wrote:
> On Friday, December 22, 1995 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Charles Lane wrote:
> > In article <4b767m$d...@pravda.aa.msen.com> jweis...@viewmi.pnet.msen.com (John Weisgerber) writes:
> > >We use an old schematic capture program called SCHEMA from a company called
> > >Omation which appears to be gone. We are currently having problems locating
> > >Video drivers for newer VGA cards to work with this program. My questions:
> > >Does anybody know if Omation still exists - bought out, name change, or
> > >other?
> > Bought out by (?orcad? one of the big guys), new owner co. doesn't support
> > but provides an upgrade path to their own products. I have a phone # in my
> > notes of (619)554-1000 from when I tried to track down Omation last year. Call
> > it and see if anyone answers :-)
> > >Does anybody know where drivers for SCHEMA could be gotten?
> > I doubt if you can get updated drivers, but you should still be able to run
> > with your display in "plain vanilla" VGA mode.
> > --
> > Chuck Lane "I wish to God these calculations
> > Drexel Univ. Particle Physics had been accomplished by steam."
> > la...@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu --C. Babbage
> I still use Schema III and still have the original 3-ring binder (remember when software came with a manual?) and the last release on disk, version 3.34. The program came with lots of video drivers, many rather generic, I've had no problem using it with modern monitors ... as long as the monitor has a VGA connector, it will likely work.
> Bill Whitlock
> engine...@verizon.net
> Ventura, CA, USA

Mr.Whitlock,

Any chance I can enlist your services to pull some schema drawings out into a PDF format? We have the schema software but no machines to run it. I really need to pull these drawings out.
Thank you, Josh

> Any chance I can enlist your services to pull some schema drawings out into a PDF format? We have the schema software but no machines to run it. I really need to pull these drawings out.
> Thank you, Josh

Josh,

I've had some success converting them to PDF for a different project from https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/gadget.html (You'll need to leverage the wayback machine as it looks like University Of Delaware has decommissioned that server.) wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/gadget.html