Sketchpad - Software from 1963
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Very nice, pity he didnt continue at that pace.
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I was about to make the comment:
"how did I end up wasting my time using AutoCad for next 20 years",
But then I saw that someone had posted a similar observation in the you tube tread.Its downright frightening to imagine how many souls are still using AutoCad.
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great post, amazing to see such an early GUI.
That mouse with the 7 seven buttons looked like a handful though
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That's pretty neat software, it's doing things that not even sketchup does at this point.
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This is the same fellow who went on to found Evans and Sutherland, at the University of UTAH in Salt Lake City (in my home town and Alma Mater thank you very much) one of the pioneering computer graphics companies in the World. They went on to produce flight simulators of the Shuttle, the F16, etc etc. They also mentored geniuses who went on to found such humble little start ups such as. . .
oh i dunno. . .Pixar, Id Software, Adobe, and many others.
Go UTES!check it out here!
Evans and Sutherland -
What struck me was - when the software straightened up the sketchy lines to straight ones - it animated it! Old school eye-candy!
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Nostalgy
@Thomthom
Have you yet coding with that?
It was crazzy thing
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No, but I remember seeing it in a museum when I was a kid.
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Just to envision such a GUI is incredible, but to actually execute it in 1963 is utterly astonishing. Google, hire this man!
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