<![CDATA[Start of my CAD career]]>I'm starting to model the office which I started my CAD career in.

http://www.dwbdesign.net/images/calma-hill-cad-1.png

Four 3D wire frame CAD stations running on a Data General Eclipse S120 (10MGhz, 1MG RAM I think), Anyone recognize the equipment or take a guess at the approx. year.

http://www.dwbdesign.net/images/calma-hill-cad-2.png

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/133940/start-of-my-cad-careerRSS for NodeTue, 19 May 2026 03:39:13 GMTSun, 18 Mar 2012 17:52:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Start of my CAD career on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:35:51 GMT]]>@tig said:

I worked on a similar 'Calcomp IGS 500' setup at the very same time - it was in the UK [it was the 1st CAD installation in England!]...
By the late 80s I was working on 'Silicon Graphics Indigos' using 'Sonata' [the grandpa of Revit]...

The digitizers were Calcomp, but the equipment was manufactured by a California company, which was purchased by GE around 1979.

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316802https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316802Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:35:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Start of my CAD career on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:49:19 GMT]]>I worked on a similar 'Calcomp IGS 500' setup at the very same time - it was in the UK [it was the 1st CAD installation in England!]...
By the late 80s I was working on 'Silicon Graphics Indigos' using 'Sonata' [the grandpa of Revit]...

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316795https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316795Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:49:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Start of my CAD career on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:45:33 GMT]]>@tig said:

1981-4 ?

Very good, I worked with this equipment from 81 till about 89, then Acad took over. This company is still using Acad.

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316793https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316793Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:45:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Start of my CAD career on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:32:45 GMT]]>1981-4 ?

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316791https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316791Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:32:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Start of my CAD career on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:17:14 GMT]]>@krisidious said:

1972? I wasn't alive yet...

Not that old.

"I'm not dead yet!"

]]>https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316790https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1316790Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:17:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Start of my CAD career on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:17:46 GMT]]>1972? I wasn't alive yet...

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