prolly hiding in closets of architecutre offices enineerin frims
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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