BrianKitts Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I just had a random thought..... (I've been modeling all day from elevations which I haven't done in months....gotta love Archicad and Revit) Remember when you had to be super conscious of the number of facets you put into anything round for fear of killing your model? Ohhh FormZ and the days of working on an apple with less than a 100mb of RAM, that's one part of the college days I sure don't miss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I still worry about face counts, old habits. I remember the very first animation I ever worked on, I didn't have a hard drive large enough to hold all the frames. The animation was only 1 minute long jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lester_Masterson Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 My college final animation fit on a 3½" floppy. To be honest, I have no idea how I did it. Well, I do remember it involved an "add on" package for AutoCAD, and it looked beautiful in it's 256 color glory. I think it involved "flc's". Does this ring any bells? God, I'm old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anejo Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Remember when we upgraded to Vista? And than some of our files got corrupted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Remember when we upgraded to Vista? And than some of our files got corrupted? Awesome. Windows 2000 is still my favorite version of Windows. Actually, Windows has changed less than you think since Windows 2000. It is still the same basic interface, just with fancy skinning and navigation. Though with the latest versions they have improved the way RAM is handled. Otherwise, you might as well be using Windows 2000. But back to Brian's statement. ....yes, we don't have to build anything any more, which is a joy. Just make things look sexy. But the world of BIM is anything but fast to navigate through. At least for myself. I am actually happiest when the designer tells me he is modeling in AutoCAD. Even Rhino gives me a faster model than Revit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 in 1995-8, I used to take out the hard drive and plug it in the printshop computers to print out some Autocad drawings, the floppies didn't fit my projects. For the scientist who invented the USB: Thank You! oh I forgot: ANimations where then very easy to do: some badass students used to take other people's work and claim it as their own. One even pretended a microsoft made animation was his (one that involved cat on a window?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 .... the .00 pens used to breakdown while stippling the night before submission does that fit or is it only computer related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonRashid Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Flc's were from Animator Pro - a fantastic DOS package that failed to translate well when windows came along. The first time I installed Autocad ver9 I had to go and purchase a math co-processor for my pc as they did not come as standard. Oh good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGrover Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Awesome. Windows 2000 is still my favorite version of Windows. Actually, Windows has changed less than you think since Windows 2000. It is still the same basic interface, just with fancy skinning and navigation. Though with the latest versions they have improved the way RAM is handled. Otherwise, you might as well be using Windows 2000. It's amazing how they managed to almost similtaneously create the best (2k) and worst (ME) OS's they ever have. They must have had two wildly different teams working on those ones. That said, XP made networking a tonnnnnne easier (in the home, at least). As for old school computer stuff, I know that my phone now has about 8 times more RAM than my first PC. Also, who remembers when you had to wait for that black screen with orange text to say "It's now safe to turn off your computer" (or something like that)? And back when you could switch off your monitor via your PC switch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 .... the .00 pens used to breakdown while stippling the night before submission does that fit or is it only computer related or they clogged. they were only used for hatching, so you would spend a few weeks not using them and them you had to clean them for an hour. Why did you remind me? Now I need my medicine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I think I still have my Rapidograph's somewhere. Maybe I could loan you one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 My dad was one of the first in NM to use CAD. We had an old plotter that had a moving pen carriage over a stationary sheet. The cats would jump up on it an ruin the prints. Then I remember when I started 3d taking a terrible class on 3d and we could only use 50k faces in the whole scene. Now I have a chair with that count. I also remember using the very short lived IOMEGA ZIP drive to carry the files around. I had to carry both the portable drive and the large cartridges around. And it never worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 We had a fancy new HP Plotter at my school for most of the prints, but there was an old pen plotter that we would use to "trick" the professors into thinking our Cad drawings were hand drawn by using the program "squiggle" and plotting on Canson Paper. And long live the zip drive and it's click of death, parallel port interface and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonRashid Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 The first Dye Sublimation Printer I had cost £13K from Mitsubishi and the ink came on a 3 colour transparency roll. Within 2yrs they were less than £500 and I had to sit and look at the white elephant that cost so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 A few things I don't miss: - installing AutoCAD 11 from a thousand disks everytime my system had to be formatted - having to burn a CD (using a damn expensive external recorder) so I could take my CorelDraw! files for printing - having to keep switching between DOS and Windows 3.11 when doing 3D on 3d stidio r3 from CAD drawings made on ACAD12 Lite And, of course, - manually erasing ink drawings - sand erasers! - ink on my shirt And so many more.... good times! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 WE'RE OLD MAN! we're old. My father's ex wife's nephew came to my office today looking for temp work for a month, I don't think he understood half what I said about the biz. Even our lingo is old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Hart Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Back in the days when 1Mb of RAM was "a lot", I can remember using a DOS utility that stole a small portion of Video RAM to contribute to the base 640K. To this day I still worry about poly counts, but thank goodness for proxies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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