The official Mechanical EngineerŐs Toolkit CDROM contains the full archive of the MechEng BBS. Operated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the MechEng BBS has been collecting scientific, technical, and engineering software since 1987. As the premier collection of engineering shareware, many technical shareware authors choose the MechEng archive as their primary distribution point.  

Among the 5,400 files, you will find six complete systems for Finite Element Analysis, eight different mechanical CAD systems, four electrical CAD systems, and hundreds of support files for AutoCad, PADS, Spice, Mathcad, and other mainstream engineering programs. The MechEng CDROM contains files you are unlikely to find elsewhere, such as the programs for CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining centers. The category for scientific plotting alone contains 122 files. There is even a games section with entertainment for the technically minded like FourFun, the Fourier Analysis Game, and Core Wares, a battle between programs.

You get general technical areas in mathematics, statistics, biology, geophysical, and basic physics. Programmers will appreciate the Pascal, BASIC, FORTRAN, and C areas. Most files are for IBM-PC but also youŐll get files for UNIX workstations, the Amiga and Atari computers.

The CDROM is BBS-ready, with file indexes for opus, RBBS, PCBoard, Wildcat, Maximus and Spitfire BBSŐs.