1 Mar
2013
1 Mar
'13
8:26 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 02/28/2013 03:45 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure there's very little if any CAD for CGA.
>
> There WAS some, but not much, and NOT FOR LONG!
>
> CAD users tended to be EARLY adopters of higher res video as it came out.
That's what I remember when EGA was new and expensive (then it was
quickly gone and replaced with VGA in what felt like a few months).
Even more, they were early adopters of CAD
workstations (Sun, Daisy,
Apollo,...). PeeCees were for weenies.
I definitely remember that era. Lots of the CAD I saw in the 8-bit
and 16-bit PC era was on $10K-$50K UNIX workstations. I was just
asking a friend last night about engineering drawings and what he used
when he was a draftsman, and he replied, "Intergraph workstation" and
whatever the matching application was (it's not like you had lots of
application choices on proprietary platforms).
The first schematic capture and PCB layout system I ever saw up close
was in 1984 (and was a year or two old at that point, so it was
contemporary with the IBM 5150). It ran on a IBM 4331 and used a
largish (17"? 19"?) Tektronix storage scope for the user. I recall
it being a bit clunky to use. PADS? (not PADS-PCB the MS-DOS
application that we used 2-3 years later when an IBM 5170 PC/AT was
available and capable of doing circuit layout).
-ethan