Extinction

[kdg]

As long as we're strolling down memory lane...

In the early / mid 90's, the foreman at the small job shop I was at used TekSoft procad / cam.
I used it occasionally, liked it well enough.

I personally used SmartCam & Autocad at the time. DOS versions, IIRC windows versions weren't available yet. Modeling / drafting in Autocad (with AME) from back then is probably still more capable than the current Mcam. I also taught a customizing Autocad course at the local JuCo, LISP (aka lost in stupid parenthesis).

[neurosis]

I personally used SmartCam & Autocad at the time.

I was using SmartCam all the way up until about 1994.

If I had to relearn it today I don't know that I could. 

[Leehound]

My first Cad/Cam, late eighties: Powerstation for the win. MSC used to sell it.

[gcode]

My first was Anicam 1.0
13"  4 color screen
two 8" floppies  64K capacity (??)
one contained the executable file, the other was storage
no mouse, all commands were entered using the keyboard.
The 8" floppies only lasted a couple of weeks and eventually I couldn't buy them anymore
I threw the system away... which I really regret today.

edit I asked CoPilot about Anicam 1.0
the only thing that came up was my old posts on eMC

[kdg]

My 1st CAM was a custom program that ran on a TRS80 Model 2, black & white monitor, we even had the 3 disc expansion module, application ran off 1 disc. IIRC they were 10" discs.

Drip fed the programs (at 110 baud) to a Summit Bandit controller, attached to a knee mill.

[Newbeeee™]

Modeling / drafting in Autocad (with AME) from back then is probably still more capable than the current Mcam. I also taught a customizing Autocad course at the local JuCo, LISP (aka lost in stupid parenthesis).

Lisp was great - so powerful.
Easy peasy L= Line, F = Fillet, CP= Copy, ER= Erase etc
I banged a drum for an enhancement request that was supposedly high up the flagpole to integrate into mcam to enhance the customisable quick keys.... This was X7 and i'll be long dead before it's implemented....

[Newbeeee™]

I asked CoPilot

You running copilot huh....
https://x.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032

[gcode]

You running copilot huh....
https://x.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032

I asked Grok the same question and got surprisingly good results
I'm impressed

[Newbeeee™]

I asked Grok the same question and got surprisingly good results
I'm impressed

"As long as the graph goes up and to the right."

[gcode]

I asked Grok the same question and got surprisingly good results
I'm impressed

I've probably spent several hours over the years looking for info on Anicam 1.0 with zero results.
The free version of Grock came up with comprehensive results in about 20 seconds

[JakeL]

My first CAD/CAM... Mastercam 2021, back then MGS looked a lot different, and unified didn't exist 

Sidenote, I know what a floppy disk is, but I've never seen one in real life. 

[MIL-TFP-41]

I guess this picture ages me a bit. Also says a lot about not throwing shit out.



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[jstell]

I actually have an unopened box with ten or a dozen 5-1/4" floppies, in the top of a closet behind an Apple IIc (~1987?) with 12" green screen, that still worked the last time it was plugged in.  Of course, I think that's been 20 years now too.  Has 128K of RAM - double the earlier Apple II.  The IIe had 128K as well.  The IIc is the "portable" and you could get a 24-line flat-screen LCD so you didn't have to lug that heavy old monitor, deeper than it was wide and bolted to a steel base.  The computer/keyboard unit even has a handle on the back that doubled as a flip-down stand, to get some air under it and prop the keyboard angle to you.

[Zoffen]

It would be kinda fun to install an older version like this on an older platform and find all the things that are the EXCACT SAME in Mcam2026....

[Jeff]

I know what a floppy disk is, but I've never seen one in real life

Have you ever had the pleasure of using dial-up internet?