I remember that when I needed a special font, I'd mail (snail mail) a note to LetterGuide in Lincoln, Nebraska and order the font and sizes. Transferring from one drafting table to another was easy with my Leroy scriber & LetterGuide templates.
Once upon a time, life was slower but easier ...
Then came AutoCAD. What was that first one? I think I got version 1.3 and the world went to hell.
V1.15 - 1985 (and I'm still learning...)
man, you guys are old fossils. I started when v9 was the cat's meow, and v10 was a little puppy. but I'm still learning, too. maybe I shoulda been a veterinarian ...
Yup. Here I am on vacation, looking at my emails and iPhone wondering why the merry go round keeps going faster and faster.
Ahhhh, the good old days.
AutoCad fossils
The first for me was 1.4 (I think) and it "locked up"...a lot. I believe it had to do with zooming in and out and the regen. It really didn't matter much, we didn't have a plotter and we were still "slinging ink" on vellum and mylar.
About 1985 we picked up v2.0 or v2.1 and got a state-of-the-art IBM 386. That and a CalComp plotter. We always laughed about the fact that "an engineer HAD to be the one who designed a plotter that kept the pen in one place and moved the paper back and forth..."
..At the C prompt..type cd..acad (to get into that directory) and then type acad (the executable) and hit enter. Strange and wonderful things would happen. Drafting just hasn't been the same since..
A little history
AutoCAD Releases-
•AutoCAD 1.0 December 1982 (Release 1)
•AutoCAD 1.2 (2) April 1983 (Release 2)
•AutoCAD 1.3 (3) August 1983 (Release 3)
•AutoCAD 1.4 (4) October 1983 (Release 4)
•AutoCAD 2.0 (5) October 1984 (Release 5)
•AutoCAD 2.1 (6) May 1985 (Release 6)
•AutoCAD 2.5 (7) June 1986 (Release 7)
•AutoCAD 2.6 (8) April 1987 (Release 8)
•AutoCAD R9 September 1987 codename White Album (Release 9)
•AutoCAD R10 October 1988 (Release 10)
•AutoCAD R11 October 1990 (Release 11)
•AutoCAD R12 June 1992 (Release 12)
•AutoCAD R13 November 1994 (Release 13)
•AutoCAD R14 February 1997 codename Sedona and PInetop for 14.01 (Release 14)
•AutoCAD 2000 (15) March 1999 codename Tahoe (Release 15)
•AutoCAD 2000i (16) July 2000 codename Banff (Release 16)
•AutoCAD 2002 (17) June 2001 codename Kirkland (Release 17)
•AutoCAD 2004 (18) March 2003 codename Reddeer (Release 18)
•AutoCAD 2005 (19) March 2004 codename Neo (Release 19)
•AutoCAD 2006 (20) March 2005 codename Rio (Release 20)
•AutoCAD 2007 (21) March 2006 codename Postrio (Release 21)
•AutoCAD 2008 (22) March 2007 codename Spago (Release 22)
•AutoCAD 2009 (23)March 2008 codename Raptor (Release 23)
•AutoCAD 2010 (24) March 2009 codename Gator (Release 24)
•AutoCAD 2011 (25) March 2010 codename Hammer (Release 25)
•AutoCAD 2012 March 2011 codename Ironman (Release 26)
•AutoCAD 2013 March 2012 codename Jaws (Release 27)
•AutoCAD 2014 March 2013 codename Keystone (Release 28)
•AutoCAD 2015 March 2013 codename Longbow (Release 29)
R14 is still my favorite. They should have stopped there..:snarky: