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[Jeff]

I will never forget the ship's wheel icon against that teal desktop of my Gramma's windows 95 machine. It was down in the basement beside Grampa's HAM equipment. We could play on it, and felt pretty special as a little kid to play with a computer that we knewthought was JUST for games. The look and feel of those old beige rigs and CRT's... unbridled nostalgia.

Shiiet, look at me, sounding like you old boys talking about the black and white paper tape CNC days, lol

Yep, I played a lot of Zork on my mom's early Compaq computer. At least I think it was a Compaq.

[Newbeeee™]

I will never forget the ship's wheel icon against that teal desktop of my Gramma's windows 95 machine. It was down in the basement beside Grampa's HAM equipment. We could play on it, and felt pretty special as a little kid to play with a computer that we knewthought was JUST for games. The look and feel of those old beige rigs and CRT's... unbridled nostalgia.

Shiiet, look at me, sounding like you old boys talking about the black and white paper tape CNC days, lol

Windows 311 blew our auld minds, after DOS....

[Jim at Gentex]

Windows 311 blew our auld minds, after DOS....

Yup.
I remember getting my first copy of Windows 3.1 on I think it was (6) floppy disks IIRC. 

(Gawd...we ARE old.  )

[CADCAM3D5AXIS]

I will never forget the ship's wheel icon against that teal desktop of my Gramma's windows 95 machine. It was down in the basement beside Grampa's HAM equipment. We could play on it, and felt pretty special as a little kid to play with a computer that we knewthought was JUST for games. The look and feel of those old beige rigs and CRT's... unbridled nostalgia.

Shiiet, look at me, sounding like you old boys talking about the black and white paper tape CNC days, lol

DON'T FORGET THE IBM PUNCH CARDS WHICH LED TO THE PAPER TAPES .   AND WIN 3.11 FOR WORKGROUPS  Was Pretty Much Rock Solid  then add  Bridgeport EZ MILL  CAM   And You could knock out some 2d prog, in short order with macro,s and chips were flying .

[mowens]

We had an early Cad/Cam system called Cimcam. We got upgraded to 20mb hard drives that were the size of a vinyl lp.

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

I use Bitdefender VPN. (I don't know)

[Jim at Gentex]

Remember CadKey?

My first copy of that came on 5 or 6 floppy disks too. 

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Remember CadKey?

My first copy of that came on 5 or 6 floppy disks too. 

I first learned CadKey in '94 or so, and it was the solid modeling software taught at my university from 94-2000. CadKey was renamed Keycreator shortly after, which is a non-history based solid modeler that I used successfully until just a couple of years ago. Its main strength and selling point back when I ran a job shop from '03-'08 was the number of translators it offered, which was a plus when dealing with a variety of customers. IMO it is still a very capable and powerful software package that got left behind for a number of reasons.

I still have a version installed, dongle and all, on a Win7 box at home, which I use to this day for house/car/misc projects.

At my current job I am forced to use AutoCAD for some plant layout stuff, and it is just as shitty as I remember it was 25+ years ago.

[MIL-TFP-41]

Remember CadKey?

My first copy of that came on 5 or 6 floppy disks too. 

CadKey was responsible for me despising the Mastercam interface back then. It was so much cleaner than the Pre-X versions (V9, V8 ,V7, etc) of Mastercam (Not that the X versions were that good, but it was better than the DOS looking shit). I would model everything in CadKey then all I used Mastercam for was toolpathing. Then this was when solids were an add-on for mastercam, so that had a lot to do with it too.

Someone correct me, but I believe CadKey had a "classic" interface that looked very similar to Mastercam's pre-X interface.

[Jim at Gentex]

I would model everything in CadKey then all I used Mastercam for was toolpathing.

Same.

Yes, the CadKey interface was clean and simple, and very similar to pre-X Mastercam. 

I still have a version installed, dongle and all, on a Win7 box at home, which I use to this day for house/car/misc projects.

That's awesome. 

I probably still have my Windows 3.1 and CadKey installation disks in a box somewhere in my closet, but I can't even remember the last computer I had with a 3.5" floppy drive! 

[ghuns]

I started on CadKey in about 1998, then KeyCreator whenever that was. Got Cimatron in '08. Never touched it again. I do still have my old dongle...



We still have one designer here who bitterly clings to KeyCreator. I think our last update of it was in '07.