Yep - remember the Gerber system - I think ours was a single rack wide - full height.
Saber 9000 - think we did early pcb on them before we went to IBM on the big stuff
I got us into. We got the IBM in '86 maybe '85. Lockheed and ourselves had the only
two machines that would run either of our software on. So we backed up each other
and used time back and forth when service or down time occurred. Before Cadence...

Martin

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wrote:
Devonshire,

Autograph from Gerber Systems. Around 1983. About 1989 or so we
purchased the Saber 9000 CAD/CAM for around 90K which came with a HP
workstation running X Windows. Very powerful system for the time.
Gerber had their stuff together but I think the cost and lack of
marketing really hurt them. Many ended up working for CNC and I think
that gave them the lead. In around a ten mile radius, you had the
talents of Gerber, CNC and CadKey. Its a shame the direction that
Cadkey took. You use to see them all the time but today you hardly see
the software in any shop.

gary


Did the CAD software happen to be CadKey? In college we had tablets
and wands that worked with that software. The wand kinda looked like
a ball point pen.

Devonshire



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