I started with AutoCAD 2.62 (younger than many here) jejeje this was back in the Universidad de America, Bogotá, where I was studying Architecture. This was a real revolution back then and the desigh teachers were really obfuscated when someone delivered an AutoCAD plotted layout plan. I remember AutoCAD 9, 10, 11, 12 DOS and Windows, 14 and then the Jump to 2000 Series! Good memory lane. Thanks for sharing!

It's nice to see how AutoCAD was before. It has almost every thing. Seems like AutoCAD evolved slowly. I have been very inspired from it and wanted to make my own CAD software like it.

I remember when use by first time AutoCAD 1.4 in the university in course draw tech in 1988. I remember the commands and others tips to draw. Incredible times! 😊

My employer purchased AutoCAD in about 1984 for our three drafters (on the IBM XT) but as a mechanical engineer I didn't pay any attention to it until about 1988 when my boss said I should learn how to use it. The early systems used a BNW graphics card driving a 19" RGB long-persistence monitor at (if I recall) 1024x1024 in about 4 colours. The MDA monitor was used for booting and the AutoCAD command line. As expected, all drawings were stored on floppies and placed in an old shoe box. Plots were made on an HP E-size printer. The v2.18 (approx) 3-ring binder user manual was intimidating to read but once I sat down at the keyboard (with v10) I found it pretty easy. After a few weeks occasionally asking the drafters for help I soon became proficient. After reading about the data resolution being something like 40 decimal places I realised that to use it optimally lines need to be entered precisely, e.g 1/64" is 0.015625" rather than 0.156". I also found that I could speed up AutoCAD considerably by placing the .EXE, .OVL and scratch files on a RAM disk rather than let AutoCAD decide how to exploit unallocated Extended/Expanded memory. We used the IBM 286 AT, then 386 and eventually 486 clones usually with 2-4MB RAM. We stuck to DOS with Xtree as a front-end to AutoCAD and eventually a 12-node thin-coax Lantastic network. Our VP mentioned to me once that it was embarrassing to reveal our setup to visitors once Windows 3.1 was common in offices, but this was fast, reliable and cheap. I once tried to produce a 2-D design layout with 6 views and found it hopeless to keep them all matching so tried using 3-D. Because the industrial machinery we were designing was essentially orthogonal in nature, it was possible to represent almost everything needed with only thick polylines and circles. Soon we were well on our way with everyone in the department on-board with the interpretation of 3-D design layouts to derive production drawings, pretty much what AutoDesk did later with paper space. A complex X-Y table layout for example was only 1MB in size. Amusingly, when I attended CAD seminars put on by SGI, SUN, and PTC etc, it turned out that we were one of the only local companies already designing in "3-D", despite the almost-comical limitations. I used to update one of our 10 AutoCAD licenses every release to evaluate the improvements (up to v13) but we stuck to v10 as a group until 1995 because it did everything we needed. Eventually we moved on to NT3.51 with v13c6, a combination that allowed opening much larger assemblies with the advantage of mixing in solid models where needed.

I started out on 1.40 on a CGA display with a HIPAD digitizer. Never thought in a million years would I fill the 10 meg hard drive. I did. It was just a little different from the Fusion 360 that I use now...lol. Thanks for the video and the great memories.

Makes me feel better about the quick trim change in AutoCAD 2021 - We have overall come a long way!

Really Nostalgic 👍👍🥰 Thanks for sharing this video. I have started in Release 10.0 😊

I'm watching this as I work in cad 2021, really cool to see the software's ancestors in action!

Empecé a usar AutoCAD a partir de la versión 10, veo que se parece mucho en algunas secciones. El gran salto en el desarrollo de este software fue cuando paso a Windows, y aún recuerdo cuando se lanzó la versión 14, fue otro gran salto. Antes, para poder usar AutoCAD, se necesitaba tener conocimientos de computación y de dibujo, de preferencia también de programación para poder explotarlo. Ahora cualquier persona lo puede usar, sin necesidad de todos esos conocimientos, pero no lo explota en su totalidad. AutoCAD es un programa que me gusta mucho.

Thanks for the awesome content! Completely unrelated, but nice guitars in the back.

So Good! This would be an amazing Autodesk University class! Thank You!

This is so interesting as I'm starting my journey to (re)learn AutoCAD 2020! Keep it up!

Man, you can clearly see inspiration from Cad on Tek tubes, with the crosshairs and all.

Very cool that I've found your channel on youtube. I use to work a lot with AutoCad running on D.O.S in the beginning. I've got retired as an Intergraph Plant Design System - PDS, as a Senior Admin... Wich is the system that I like tho most. Btw, I just love'd the guitars in the background. I'm also a guitar player. Cool channel. I've just subscribed. I wish I could show you my work nowadays with WebGl, but I dont know how to sent you a link without sharing in this comment. And in general, streamers dont use to approve comments with links. Cheers from Southern Brasil

Cool. This is like the notepad of drawing CAD programs. Stripped down, barebones.

This program is perfect for busses like me and my friend

Have been using autocad since version 10 & dongle for printing.... but really magnificent, the map of Keoland!

Actually we loved this so much we posted a link to it on our blog: blog.draftsperson.net/

I thought that autocad 2000 was the first version)

Everything same just got few animation

It seems like this channel is not active.

what others see the software : autocad . . also actual designers see the software : autoscam