RAYMOND Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 mine.. a 16mhz with about 250mb of ram screen was monochrome autoCad ran very slow. plotter was a rolland pen plotter all day to plot about 8 sheets i was the only one in office using CAD i got a lot of "why are we doing this" that was in 1989.. things different now tho.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil poppleton Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 autocad r11,on a 366...or maybe 266... it was a long time ago 250 mb Hard disk drive i'm guessing 4 or 8mb of RAM, it took 1 or 2 minutes to regen in autocad on a detailed dwg, and a pen plotter , all in all 20k (sterling) around 15 yrs ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 you certainly made a mistake: not 250MB of ram... mine was a 33mhz DX2 (intels' best at that time) that had a button to make it run at 66 mhz (stupid?) 8mb of ram 400MB hard disk screen 14" color autoCad ran very slow and crashed at hatching (still crashes sometimes in version 2006). plotter was a rolland pen plotter that my uncle owned. I was faster inking by hand. all day to plot about 8 sheets too. that was in 1995.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 my first computer was a Tandy 1000, the first workstation i did graphics and 3d on was a Power Computing (not sure which model) Macintosh clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac3d Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 compuadd 486-sx 25mhz 8 meg ram 80 meg hd 14" vga 12X12 digitizer basically went to the computer store and asked for something that ran cad. (forgot to add adjective quickly+ didn't know jack about computers) so that's what a mathco processor does?! my very very first workstation is the attached picture. this workstation only had random memory. access was hit or miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 first computer was Commodore32 first computer I did 3D models on was a Kaypro, V30 based. What was that? The first Intel-compatable CPU chips were NOT AMDs (which I've used since the K5 days) but NEC 16bit chips pretending to be Intel 8 bit 8086 chips. Mine was a 16Mhz, and video was a VGA 16 color card, really high-end. By the time we got to the 286 33Mhz processors, there were specialty CAD video cards, cost about $1000. I had a VMI Cobra. And back in the day, we had those Turbo switches on the front of our PCs. Why the hell you would switch it OFF I'll never know. But we had the button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 My first computer was a 350mhz PII with a 10 gig hard drive, and 64mb of ram, grew out of that one pretty quickly, I didn't even know how to turn a computer on till I was 35 years old... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I played with my Aunts commodore 64, but my first real computer was an IBM PS/2 Model 25 with 128 KB of RAM and an 8086 processor. After about a year we upgraded and got the math co-processor LOL. Here's a picture that bad boy: http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/ps225.htm I used it to play the original MS Flight Sim and Police Quest, Space Quest and a few other goodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAYMOND Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 can't believe we sat behind those things well got to start somewhere what was the name of Apples first... or was that the first have it at home computer?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 My first home computer (1993) was a 486 DX-50 with 16MB ram and a 250MB HD. It had a Western Digital video card and a Viewsonic 15" flat screen monitor. Oh yeah, and I had a 12x12 Summagraphics digitizer and an HP 500 B&W inkjet printer. At work in 1989, was an IBM (really) 286 with 4mb ram and a 20 MB HD. They showed me how to turn it on, and suddenly I was the new cadd person (ACAD R10). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 what was the name of Apples first... or was that the first have it at home computer?? Weren't they called Apple Macintosh's? I remember playing on of those when my parents were in the sales room in an apple store. Back when buying a computer was like buying a car, one had to be sold on all the features and things they could do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAYMOND Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 i think there was something earlier the whole thing was in the keyboard except fot the tiny screen actually i don't what is really considered the very first home computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Weren't they called Apple Macintosh's? I remember playing on of those when my parents were in the sales room in an apple store. Back when buying a computer was like buying a car, one had to be sold on all the features and things they could do. Oldest I used was an Apple II series, I'm not sure which of those was the oldest but I used them all at school. Then we had an IBM PC (the first one, that was just labelled PC and had an 8088, before the 8086). It had a daughterboard that gave it 1MB of RAM, which was really impressive, and DOS had a ramdrive function so I had it set up so one 5.25" floppy would have DOS boot and a program, which would be transferred to ramdrive before loading, which made it really fast. (Yeah, that makes me a computer geek since age 5 or so.) And how cool were 24-pin dot matrix printers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Oh, and years later, I bought a Kaypro 2 for $5. That was the oldest computer I ever had. It had a version of DOS and could run Basic, but I ended up giving it to my friend who was a Linux geek so he could use it as a text terminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 i just remebered using a program called Logo when i was in the the 3th and fifth grade. it was on our school computers. it was more or less basic commands that made a cursor draw vector shapes on the scree. sweet. http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/turtle.html . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 ahh yes, the IBM model 25. Ran solely off of discs like an old apple. put your dos disk in one and your program disc in the other drive. if you wanted to save something, pop out the dos disc and stick in a disc to save on. But when you quit your program... better stick that dos disc back in! first 3d system wasn't too bad, had an uncle who was in to building computers so freshman year of college had a dual 400 mhz P2 system with all scsi drives. Fastest in the dorm, to bad i didn't really know how to use all the horsepower to later in college as for the apple question, they're was the apple IIe that ran off of disks only like my model 25, although the name "II" says that wasn't the first, its just the first computer I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I used an Acorn BBC computer at primary school in the 80's. I loved it and pleaded with my parents for my own so they eventually got me a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 48K! of RAM. The wealthier kids had Commodore 64s but I loved my Spectrum (still do) Ahhh the memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 The 1st computer i ever used was in '87 an Atari 520 ST, keyboard with Monitor 600 baud modems, was The rage of The day MS Flight Simulator I or III 1st computer i ever owned was a 386 25 mhz 12 mb ram memory was $150 a megabyte (really bytes) way back Then as i was intending To buy This d@mn Thing The computer store people said (very helpful) o wait, next week The 104 mb conner IDE harddrives are coming out so i waited, Then, They said o wait, in 2 more weeks The 256 color video cards will be coming out so i waited, Then, They said o wait, in another month The 2400 baud modems will be coming out (remember modems, compuserve??) so i waited finally i had a dyselexic hits fit and said just sell me The d@mn Thing which They did 6 months and four motherboards later it finally worked ** i asked The retired fellow who did my Tax returns, yesterday what he used To do for work before he up & retired 5 years ago he said he used To do computer support, starting in The 60's magnetic Tape, punch card, main frames The size of houses, he Told me a LOT about how Things started out in The old computer days very interesting chat ** anybody remember edlin? b4 word processing was available Randy Patience is a virtue, my virtual @&& is not virtuous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestCAD Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 My introduction to AutoCAD Version 1.14 back in 84 was an apc at work, and TAFE college was using 2 - 8" disk drives integral with monitor, 1 had sytem and program on 8" floppy, the other was for saving drawing files...(i still have my 8" work disk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I guess cellphone saturation has been reached--even old floppies have a celly now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklazaro Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 lets see if i remember this 386 xt machine monochrome monitor no mouse 8mb ram 514 inch floopy drive i just cant remember the rest for the love of god oh yes i used to play pacman and digger btw anyone know where we can get those two games now . . . ????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Petrino Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Tektronics 4114. A huge workstation attached to a Prime mainframe. You had to sit in a darkened room and the screen glowed green. This was all Pre AutoCad. Slow as heck, we did huge jobs with that system. The abuse dumped on the cad operators by the hand draftsman back then was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAYMOND Posted April 17, 2006 Author Share Posted April 17, 2006 yep, i remember CAD people in the 80's were the curse of the office. i can still hear all the "get real man" talk... now of course, you can't get hired unless you know CAD altho I think the acronym of CAD is now outdated... it is no longer considered an "aided" tool. I remember a monochrome screen, just drawing a circle from a mainframe.. good time for a coffee break... now the abuse is 2d CAD people cursing BIM.... the pencil people just moved their thinking to a mouse... human nature i guess... myself included.. :D .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAB Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I still have the commodore 64 ,well mentained & sealed in its original packings,still working!.I used to play games on a datasette after asking my dad,as it worthed 4 used cars!! this was in 1989.. I purchased the 256 dx IBM in 1990 or 91 maybe..cad 11 & windows 3.11,upgraded then to win 95 & added some hardware 52x cdrom(a space rocket),svga and they couldnt find a suitable sound card so it remaind working with no sound till it was thrown away by a PIII 600 in 1998, scince this date not more than 6 months & an uppgrade is done..a P4 1.8ghz made its way in 2002 & took the name "last standing home comp" till present day .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAB Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 what about printers? the commodore had one with a plain roll of papers having holes in the twoo sides..I dont know what was its fate...even I can hardly remember its shape! the next was an HP inkjet with the PIII ,followed by a series of epsons till now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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