In packing my house up to move, I am going through boxes of my technology and Autodesk history items and having a blast remembering all the tech and fun times. There is a slew of my phones and PDA, from the Palm to the super teeny iPhone 5s.…
Read MoreIn Marin County, California, a small group of people got together January 30, 1982 and formed Autodesk. As founder John Walker stated “the game has changed.” Today marks the 39th birthday of Autodesk. Autodesk’s Flying founders”Autodesk Founders. They didn’t walk on water, but they could fly pretty well.”…
Read MoreWho knew in the boxes of 38 years of Autodesk history that I have that we could connect Tina Turner and her hit song Simply The Best with Autodesk the software company. I received this 45rpm vinyl record from Dietmar Rudolph some years ago along with other Autodesk…
Read MoreI may have found someone with the oldest AutoCAD release software outside of Autodesk. Of course internally we had early 1.0 alphas, betas, and development copies that were never released. In fact AutoCAD-80 and AutoCAD-86 version 1.0 was never commercially released. I found a early AutoCAD customer with…
Read MoreAutoCAD 1.4 circa 1984/85 and the Space Shuttle drawing by Autodesk founder John Walker. This is one of the earliest known DWG sample files used to show AutoCAD-86. I captured this on a retro 286/287 that I run in my home office for geeky fun. Update: Here is…
Read MoreIf you read the word “Floppies” and scratched your head, you might be less than 30 years old and never seen what we had to work with to store data and install products back in the early days. There were 3.25, 5, and 10” floppies back in the…
Read MoreTake a trip to the Universe to 1:1 scale in AutoCAD.https://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2018/02/the-solar-system-drawn-to-scale-in-autocad-dwg-scale-accuracy-is-everything.html
Read MoreAutoCAD Release History(https://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/autocad-release-history.html) AutoCAD 1.0 December 1982 (Release 1) AutoCAD 1.2 April 1983 (Release 2) AutoCAD 1.3 August 1983 (Release 3) AutoCAD 1.4 October 1983 (Release 4) AutoCAD 2.0 October 1984 (Release 5) AutoCAD 2.1 May 1985 (Release 6) AutoCAD 2.5 June 1986 (Release 7) AutoCAD 2.6 April…
Read MoreI have been using 3DS Max since release 1.0 and 3D Studio for DOS before that where we had the Shaper, the Lofter, and that other mode I always forget when animation was really hard and rendering frames took hours and hours to only find out you messed…
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