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CAD history

CAD history

RE: CAD history

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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RE: CAD history

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!

Cheers, HM

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RE: CAD history

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?

RE: CAD history

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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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RE: CAD history

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

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