In article <CAD+kn83GPHcZmaXJBozb04mhU3L0tDvZruTx2iwQ-+UMXGQdLw at mail.gmail.com>,
"auringer tds.net" <auringer at tds.net> writes:
Does anyone collect / maintain old versions of
programs like I-DEAS or
ANSYS? I have a stack of literature about these, and other, design
systems. My inclination is to recycle. Anyone care?
If you're going to toss the documentation/manuals, I'd like to take
custody of them to scan/archive them.
CAD is an important piece of the history of computer graphics, being
the market that dominated the development of new hardware prior to the
explosion of PC gaming in the 90s.
Archiving the software has proved more elusive than documentation at
this point; much of this high end CAD software was deployed only on
the workstations/minicomputers that were sold along with the software
and they often have licensing schemes that prevent the software from
executing indefinitely.
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