



They launched AutoCAD at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas as the first CAD program in the world to run on a PC. Their flagship product turned out to be AutoCAD. He and the other 15 co-founders intended to develop five different desktop automation applications, hoping that one of the applications would take off. The company behind AutoCAD, Autodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker. Imagine how much effort it would take to compute technical calculations with calculators and mathematical tables! What’s worse, the process was fraught with opportunities for error. Creating new versions of drawings and performing calculations took days, even weeks. If the designer didn’t have access to these, they’d go about drawing using an old-school drafting desk and a t-square. Early AutoCAD workstation (Source: Ohio State University)
