> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Tobias Gogolin
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 1:27 PM
>
> I have to dig up this timeline spreadsheet that I one made for a
> presentation about the future of design and computation. I'd like to offer
> it to be collaborated on to extend it to whoever sends me an email
> requesting, it contains things like technology, transistors, DRAM
> densities,
> mayor CPUs, FPGA, Compilers, OSs and CAD tools...

This sounds like a good use for a Google Docs spreadsheet and you could make
a nice Simile Timeline from the data.
http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/

>
> I remember to have found autocad ~1980/81 and PTC 1987
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Carl Denk <cdenk@windstream.net> wrote:
>
> > Autocad V2.17 was in late 70's, ran on the early IBM "AT", with a QDP
> > "VIVA" card, designed and made in Cleveland, Oh., so that would make PTC
> > mid 1980's?

AutoCAD V1.0 was released December 1982, V2.17 would likely have been
between May 1985 (V2.1 release) and June 1986 (V2.5 release). The IBM PC AT
came out in 1984.

PTC was founded in 1985 and the first release of their flagship product,
Pro/Engineer, shipped in 1988.

Paul Hutch

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