Vintage AutoCAD

[Anonymous]

I was just rummaging around in my basement when i found two unopened mailed packages from 1994 in this empty container. They have never been opened or even touched. I opened the two packages and found the following: Two Autodesk Test-Drive Autovision Release 2's, Two AutoCad Designer's for AutoCad Release 12, A couple notices and an AutoCad booklet, a whole AutoCad Release 13 booklet (which covers everything about Release 13 i assume), And then here's the interesting part: It came with a TON of (what look to be) floppy disks. They were scattered everywhere in the box and they had labels on them. I organized the disks into to categories. (there are pictures to go with this). if you are interested in either: Buying this AutoCad stuff, or letting me know what i can do with this stuff, email me at: underscorecharlie@gmail.com. For any other questions regarding this, refer to my email thank you much!

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NOTE: EVERYTHING HERE USED TO BELONG TO MY NEIGHBOR BACK WHEN HE WORKED IN WESTINGHOUSE. I GUESS THEY SENT HIM A COPY OF AUTOCAD THAT HE NEVER GOT AROUND TO OPENING AT ALL. HE EVENTUALLY GAVE IT TO MY FATHER AND MY FATHER NEVER DID ANYTHING WITH IT SO IT HAS SIT IN MY BASEMENT ALL THESE YEARS.

[Anonymous]

I was just rummaging around in my basement when i found two unopened mailed packages from 1994 in this empty container. They have never been opened or even touched. I opened the two packages and found the following: Two Autodesk Test-Drive Autovision Release 2's, Two AutoCad Designer's for AutoCad Release 12, A couple notices and an AutoCad booklet, a whole AutoCad Release 13 booklet (which covers everything about Release 13 i assume), And then here's the interesting part: It came with a TON of (what look to be) floppy disks. They were scattered everywhere in the box and they had labels on them. I organized the disks into to categories. (there are pictures to go with this). if you are interested in either: Buying this AutoCad stuff, or letting me know what i can do with this stuff, email me at: underscorecharlie@gmail.com. For any other questions regarding this, refer to my email thank you much!

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NOTE: EVERYTHING HERE USED TO BELONG TO MY NEIGHBOR BACK WHEN HE WORKED IN WESTINGHOUSE. I GUESS THEY SENT HIM A COPY OF AUTOCAD THAT HE NEVER GOT AROUND TO OPENING AT ALL. HE EVENTUALLY GAVE IT TO MY FATHER AND MY FATHER NEVER DID ANYTHING WITH IT SO IT HAS SIT IN MY BASEMENT ALL THESE YEARS.

[Patchy]

Windows 486 PC included ?

[Patchy]

Windows 486 PC included ?

[neaton]

That brings back memories: I started with R13  Good luck finding a home for it.

Nancy

[neaton]

That brings back memories: I started with R13  Good luck finding a home for it.

Nancy

[scot-65]

Not sure if I should let you in on this...
For the release 12, the first floppy disc has the "product key"
embedded and can only be read once. That does not mean
one can copy the entire disc 1 to another floppy and use
that destination floppy as the first disc. I believe this
changed with release 13; not sure though as I skipped
from 12 to 14 (CD with contact to a reseller to get a key).

Release 13 came in 2 flavors. DOS and WIN 3.1.
The later took advantage of a new UI feature: Toolbar Buttons!
And TTFonts as well as higher screen resolution as computer
screen norms now reached 15 inches (1024x768?). I remember
pushing a button on the tower that changed the digital display
from 33 to 50. Woo hoo, faster processing power... The cost of
the tower was proportional to the amount of RAM installed.
Basically $500 per 1mb up to 8mb where the motherboard
had 4 or 8 slots and RAM had 2 sizes: 0.5mb and 1mb (from
my failing memory). 128mb hard drives were top of the line.

GIG and Tera words not part of the computing world at this time...

???

[scot-65]

Not sure if I should let you in on this...
For the release 12, the first floppy disc has the "product key"
embedded and can only be read once. That does not mean
one can copy the entire disc 1 to another floppy and use
that destination floppy as the first disc. I believe this
changed with release 13; not sure though as I skipped
from 12 to 14 (CD with contact to a reseller to get a key).

Release 13 came in 2 flavors. DOS and WIN 3.1.
The later took advantage of a new UI feature: Toolbar Buttons!
And TTFonts as well as higher screen resolution as computer
screen norms now reached 15 inches (1024x768?). I remember
pushing a button on the tower that changed the digital display
from 33 to 50. Woo hoo, faster processing power... The cost of
the tower was proportional to the amount of RAM installed.
Basically $500 per 1mb up to 8mb where the motherboard
had 4 or 8 slots and RAM had 2 sizes: 0.5mb and 1mb (from
my failing memory). 128mb hard drives were top of the line.

GIG and Tera words not part of the computing world at this time...

???

[rkmcswain]

@scot-65 wrote:

Release 13 came in 2 flavors. DOS and WIN 3.1.

@scot-65 -  So was R12 the last version available for Unix, Solaris, DOS, Windows, and Mac? (until Mac returned in ~2011)

[rkmcswain]

@scot-65 wrote:

Release 13 came in 2 flavors. DOS and WIN 3.1.

@scot-65 -  So was R12 the last version available for Unix, Solaris, DOS, Windows, and Mac? (until Mac returned in ~2011)

[jrreid]

Well.. many moons ago I talked to an Autodesk salesperson and said we had 5 CADs that we are thinking of selling.

She informed me that:  Autodesk licenses cannot be legally sold because they are leased to you by Autodesk by the terms of the license agreement. This was upheld by the high court.

I did a search and she is correct. All software is technically "rented" and never really owned by anyone but the company that made it. This is also true with Windows products.

I am sorry to tell you this bad news. Keep it as a keepsake. I have my windows 8 & 9. Kind of cool.

Wish I had the Bata software that Bendix Allied had when I started AutoCAD back in 1985. They were one of the companies chosen to test it's ability against all other CAD Software.  We had computers with AutoCAD and 4 other CAD programs. AutoCAD could Export to all, Import to all. None of the others could import and most did not export.  Plus AutoCAD was infinite, you could draw as large and big and deep as you ever wanted to. The test example was they drew up the Universe and you could short cut keys to Zoom to any Planit. Even the Lunar Lander on the Moon and then to the Plaque on the side of the Lander. So that is why Bendix picked AutoCAD to be their software for CAD.  So grateful they did.

JRR.

[jrreid]

Well.. many moons ago I talked to an Autodesk salesperson and said we had 5 CADs that we are thinking of selling.

She informed me that:  Autodesk licenses cannot be legally sold because they are leased to you by Autodesk by the terms of the license agreement. This was upheld by the high court.

I did a search and she is correct. All software is technically "rented" and never really owned by anyone but the company that made it. This is also true with Windows products.

I am sorry to tell you this bad news. Keep it as a keepsake. I have my windows 8 & 9. Kind of cool.

Wish I had the Bata software that Bendix Allied had when I started AutoCAD back in 1985. They were one of the companies chosen to test it's ability against all other CAD Software.  We had computers with AutoCAD and 4 other CAD programs. AutoCAD could Export to all, Import to all. None of the others could import and most did not export.  Plus AutoCAD was infinite, you could draw as large and big and deep as you ever wanted to. The test example was they drew up the Universe and you could short cut keys to Zoom to any Planit. Even the Lunar Lander on the Moon and then to the Plaque on the side of the Lander. So that is why Bendix picked AutoCAD to be their software for CAD.  So grateful they did.

JRR.

[rkmcswain]

@jrreid - this is true in many countries, but is not true in others.

[rkmcswain]

@jrreid - this is true in many countries, but is not true in others.