22 May
2018
22 May
'18
7:31 a.m.
On 5/20/2018 9:31 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
For a while I have collected bits of legacy CAD, most
recently Martin Hepperle sent me what I believe is the last version of Hank
Christianson's MOVIE.BYU, a FORTRAN based 3D modeling and animation system.
I also have experimented with the original Berkley SPICE, also written in FORTRAN.
This weekend, I am reading "the Engineering Design Revolution", a 650 page
history of the CAD industry by David Weisberg, who was there and worked for many of the
companies in the beginning of the industry, I highly recommend this for anyone interested
in CAD:
www.cadhistory.net<http://www.cadhistory.net>
The Engineering Design Revolution<http://www.cadhistory.net/>
www.cadhistory.net
The Engineering Design Revolution. The People, Companies and Computer Systems That
Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering. By. David E. Weisberg
My question is, did any of the source code for these systems, Applicon, Auto-Trol, Calma,
ComputerVision, thousands of lines of primarily FORTRAN ever make it out, where we could
read and study this original body of mathematical geometry done on computers?
I know we are primarily a hardware group here, but where is the interest in the software
discussed?
Randy
You can add Intergraph to that list, as well (their IGDS CAD software is
survived bw www.bentley.com - a company that produced a PC version of
Intergraph's IGDS, and which almost got sued out of existence, forced to
merge, and then finally separated and survived). [The Wiki on
MicroStation indicates that MicroStation was initially sold by
Intergraph. That is not correct: it was initially a completely separate
company, and sold the software directly]. Intergraph itself is nothing
but a shell.
I still have an Intergraph IP2000 workstation (with software loaded),
install media (but not license keys to load it) and Intergraph disk
controllers, high speed concentrators (pre-Ethernet) and ethernet
controllers.
No source code, though.
JRJ