Original CAD code in the wild?

[Adrian Stoness]

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.
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> I also have experimented with the original Berkley SPICE, also written in
> FORTRAN.
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> 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:
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> www.cadhistory.net<http://www.cadhistory.net>
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> 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
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> 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?
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> I know we are primarily a hardware group here, but where is the interest
> in the software discussed?
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> Randy
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