Been looking at The Autodesk File today — so many fascinating details about the early days of Autodesk and the state of the software industry in the early 80s.
fourmilab.ch/autofile/
fourmilab.ch/autofile/
In 1982 it wasn't clear how a small, software-only company would be taxed. (!)
Autodesk was from the start a distributed company…which was a bit different back then:
"We will make cassette tapes of the meetings available…"
"We will make cassette tapes of the meetings available…"
AutoCAD was originally called MicroCAD, and they had a product called "Autodesk" that was basically…Notion?
John Walker did NOT like 8086.
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