Because if it works, don't fix it!
Italians with groups like this on their local ones
like it.hobby.elettronica
use interesting program to draw & see schematics for posting
in text only usenet IMHO much bettter than ASCII ...
its FidoCAD (maybe someone could write to the author to make an
English interface & help file for it). Can be found here: less than
1Mb installed:
http://www.enetsystems.com/~lorenzo/fidocad_win.asp
you draw a standard schematic, export it as text & paste it into a
message like this (pasted code) interesting oscillator:
[FIDOCAD]
MC 85 45 0 0 580
MC 70 45 1 0 170
MC 50 55 0 0 170
MC 50 45 0 0 120
LI 85 45 60 45
LI 60 55 85 55
LI 50 45 45 45
LI 45 45 45 55
LI 45 55 50 55
MC 45 65 0 0 045
LI 45 65 45 55
LI 100 45 100 25
LI 100 55 100 75
MC 100 25 3 0 010
MC 100 75 1 0 020
TY 105 15 5 3 0 0 0 * +6V
TY 105 80 5 3 0 0 0 * -6V
MC 105 30 0 0 170
MC 105 65 0 0 170
MC 120 30 0 0 045
MC 120 65 0 0 045
LI 105 30 100 30
LI 120 30 115 30
LI 105 65 100 65
LI 120 65 115 65
LI 110 50 135 50
MC 140 50 0 0 075
MC 145 50 0 1 075
TY 60 60 5 3 0 0 0 * 2x 47nF
TY 45 35 5 3 0 0 0 * 1mH
TY 115 60 5 3 0 0 0 * 100n
TY 115 25 5 3 0 0 0 * 100n
TY 155 45 5 3 0 0 0 * 34kHz
TY 75 35 5 3 0 0 0 * LM6181
You to see it with that installed program, just copy that upper
complete code, open the program, from menu open:
modifica/incolla/come nuovo documento .... & so you see the
schematics like usuall one; IMHO not a bad trick ... & easier than
ASCII pics schematics ...
Try it 4 fun ...