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Throwback Thursday AutoCAD-86 Version 1.1 Floppy
AutoCAD-86 version 1.1 original floppy disk for the old Victor platform from 1982/1983. Cheers Shaan
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Throwback Thursday – 12 Million Lines of Code
In 2007 I met with Autodesk founder John Walker at his home in Switzerland for a discussion about the 25th anniversary of AutoCAD. We discussed a lot, mostly about early Autodesk and AutoCAD history. We got on the topic of comparing his days writing early AutoCAD code and…
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Throwback Thursday
The very first bound AutoCAD Manual and Command Reference.
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Throwback Thursday AutoCAD 2.18 Commands
It's Thursday (Throwback Thursday), the day after hump day when you show photos or info from history and the wayback machine. Today I proudly present you a screen capture I took from AutoCAD 2.18 circa 1985 showing all commands it supported. Now contrast that with the hundreds of…
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Throwback Thursday Autodesk 3D Studio R1 Circa 1990
On this Throwback Thursday I give you Autodesk’s 3D Studio R1 for DOS from 1990. 3D Studio was the predecessor to the very popular Autodesk 3ds Max. This is from back when when 3D was for more difficult and primitive on old x86 PCs running DOS and you…
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Engineers Guide to Drinks Lives On and Will Move to 3D
The Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing or Infographic as it is now called in reality was really just a test drawing was originally created by someone that was very creative or very bored in order to test pen plotters back in 1972. I was not the original creator,…
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Throwback Thursday – Autodesk Puck
Been traveling 2 weeks and need to catch up so stay tuned, but first this gem given to meat last weeks Autodesk University 2014 by Kean Walmsey of Autodesk. Feast your eyes on this pristine heavy gem of hardware. What year was it given out? It is a…
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Autodesk Flashback – AUTODESK the Software
Back in the early 1980's when Autodesk was being founded there was indeed a product named AUTODESK. Trivia for bonus points: What exactly did it do?
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Happy 32nd Birthday Autodesk
On this day January 30th, 1982, 32 years ago a small group of people held an initial meeting in Marin County California to organize what became Autodesk. They risked it all including all the money they could scrape together and it paid off for millions of people from…
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