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Originally Posted by Tim Baird
I learned on AutoCad R13 in high school and I have copies as far back as R6.
Now that's old school.
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I learned on Autocad 2.56 back in 1983, on a Genuine IBM PC (5051) with a full 640k RAM and a
whopping 10 MB full-height hard disk. Remember, this was a 4.77 MHz 8086 machine, and the 8087 (math co-processor) wasn't ready yet - and even at that, the thing cost a bit north of $5000 (in 1983 dollars!) Drawings were output to an HP 75? plotter with 4 pens - 2 black (different widths) plus red and blue.
sigh. Maybe I'm showing my age.
Anyone here ever work with punch cards? Punched tape? How about a mainframe (!) with a 16 kHz clock? That used tubes? Back then, a Gigabyte of hard disk storage was something that maybe the Government had access to, but we mortals could only dream of. Now a Terabyte is about $100 on sale. I remember paying $525 for 16 MB of RAM (4x 4MB). Still have it.
sigh. No maybe about it.
Don