This is some nerdy, but important, computer history.
Having just installed SolidWorks 2010, I had to post this AMAZING 1960s CAD developed by Ivan Sutherland -- it only used 272k RAM. [all at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, of course.]
" When asked ‘How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first nonprocedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year? He said, ‘Well, I didn’t know it was hard.' "
watch the SketchPad video here!
It's amazing that this programming has been around for so long. People are still excited about it in the 1987 synopsis [above] and that's over 20 years later! Then again, I'm pretty excited about it right now, so there.
Ah, here we are with CAD [SW 2010] today. Awesome.
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