An oldie but a goodie! Back in AutoCAD version 2.18 (circa 1985), Autodesk placed a sample drawing with AutoCAD named the Solar.DWG to demonstrate the precision of AutoCAD back in the early eighties. AutoCAD was based used 64bit floating point precision and the most accurate back then. With…
Read MoreAt 22 years with Autodesk, many consider me an “old timer”, but I’m really not compared to others at Autodesk. Internally back in the day Autodesk employees referred to themselves as “deskers”, and “old timers” was a term of respect for those with a 20 year gold badge…
Read MoreIn a blast from the past I took the infamous cassette tape in my Autodesk historical collection and purchased a cassette tape to MP3 converter to see if the 34 year old cassette had anything good on it after all this time, and who was the voice on…
Read MoreHere is a very rare one from my Autodesk historic collection. CAD Cameras 1.0 was a utility to convert paper drawings “digitizing to AutoCAD using a flatbed or fixed-distance scanner in 1985. I actually have the entire package with the 5.25” floppy disk. Perhaps the floppy disks have…
Read MoreAutodesk was founded on January 30th, 1982. Today marks the 38th birthday of Autodesk becoming a legal U.S. corporation.
Read MoreThis book is about 8 pages making the irony not lost on me. Learn AutoCAD Without Reading the Manual. Here is the tough AutoCAD History trivia question:Who is Kelvin R. Throop, the author of this book?
Read MoreRetro AutoCAD is so very cool to see. Having personally over the years cultivated and documented a collection of historical Autodesk software, events, images, and memorabilia (Autodesk History Gallery), it was a pleasure to find someone else that shares this love of old design tools. It is amazing…
Read MoreI wanted to share a few more images of items in my Autodesk historical collection. This 5.25” floppy disk was from the very early beginning of Autodesk and AutoCAD. This is the AutoCAD 2.0 demo drawings shown at the 1984 COMDEX event. Read more from Autodesk Founder John…
Read MoreWhile those old 5.25 inch floppies may not be of much help these days other than memorabilia, the Autodesk Moscow office made good use of them as lenses to view a solar eclipse.а первый взгляд, сейчас трудно найти применение 5.25-дюймовым дискетам. Может только как экспонаты в музее! Но…
Read MoreA funny Throwback Thursday looking at what life was like before we had AutoCAD assisting in drafting and design. 18 Amazing Vintage Photos That Show How Life Before AutoCAD Looked Likehttps://www.vintag.es/2018/08/life-before-autocad.html
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