2026-05-09 23:19 UTC
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io 2026-05-09 23:22
@TechTangents@dialup.space you know what you need? Some Bernoulli Boxes! They were hugely popular in the AutoCAD world in the mid-80s. Also fun!
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@predecker@mastodontech.de 2026-05-10 07:27
@TechTangents@dialup.space in 1989/1990 there was PC-Draft CAD at least in Germany. We used it with 286/386/486 with a 20“ CRT on a special Card, a Hercules as second screen for text and later a VGA for an overview picture. It was 2D but my collegues built big machines (5m length) with it. They had macros for automated construction of details which run a weekend on a 386 and one night on a 486/25.
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@kaidenshi@exquisite.social 2026-05-11 22:46
@TechTangents@dialup.space What a nostalgia hit! This looks exactly like the AutoCAD setup in my drafting class in high school in the early 90s.
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-12 01:02
@TechTangents@dialup.space the 70 was actually the fastest one they had, oddly even faster than the Model 80, which I think maybe they thought people would buy as a network server even though some 386-50mhz clone was a lot better at it. I am not sure I ever saw an actual 70 with an 8514/A in it, and for a while I worked at a CAD reseller. We sold a lot of AutoCAD and Intergraph MicroStation. Zero IBMs.
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@Shadowfetch@indieweb.social 2026-05-24 01:00
@TechTangents@dialup.space That is a seriously niche setup compared to the usual MDA secondary line. I'm pretty sure some early desktop publishing tools like Ventura Publisher or maybe old OrCAD schematic editors supported the 8514/VGA split to keep the high-res canvas separate from the menus.