CAD history

I thought I would pass on this link. For those that don't remember or didn't experience the beginning of CAD.


Chris
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Might be better in the history forum. Funny to see Cambridge mentioned so much - when I was there (79-82) I never saw a CAD system! We had CAD of some sort in 83 at BL, it wasn't used for production drawings I think.






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Greg Locock

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I was at Glasgow 86-90 and we had a few sessions on some monster CAD stations built by Marconi (i think) - by 1990 i got to use AutoCAD v10 (DOS based) a little bit

Takes me back!

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I love this statement in there:

"At the end of 70s a typical CAD system was a 16-bit minicomputer with maximum of 512 Kb memory and 20 to 300 Mb disk storage at a price of 125,000 USD."

wow.

Also, I didn't see any reference to MacDonnell Douglas GDS system. Another firm I worked for had a cadd product called "System 2".

I wonder how many other systems were developed and not listed on this history?

Hey! I also used GDS for 6 years at McD in Long Beach. They are still there, unused, but working.

Chris
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What happened to looselib's link? That was an excellent read.

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