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It's interesting to note that in the west, Computer Aided Manufacturing LONG predated Computer Aided Design. "A Possible First Use of CAM/CAD" is a good read.

It's interesting to note that in the west, Computer Aided Manufacturing LONG predated Computer Aided Design. "A Possible First Use of CAM/CAD" is a good read. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01526813/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01526813/document Abstract: This paper is a discussion of the early days of CAM-CAD at the Boeing Company, covering the period approximately 1956 to 1965. This period saw probably the first successful industrial application of ideas that were gaining ground during the very early days of the computing era. Although the primary goal of the CAD activity was to find better ways of building the 727 airplane, this activity led quickly to the more general area of computer graphics, leading eventually to today’s picture-dominated use of computers.

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Thanks, buildjets, and thanks, Boeing hackers: This made the 1103A the world’s largest, most expensive punched tape machine.[0] [Computers] could not draw lines on paper accurately enough for design purposes. ... We simply replaced the cutter head of the milling machine with a tiny diamond scribe ... and drew lines on sheets of aluminium. Also: ...the somewhat loose airframe manufacturers’ computer association got together to write an APT compiler for the IBM 7090 computers in 1961. Each company sent a single programmer to Convair in San Diego... It sounds as if the airframe manufacturer's computer association had better, or at least more effectively cooperative, "soviets"/"workers' circles" than the ОКБs. [0] for reference, the 1103A had a clock speed in the kHz, and weighed ~17'500 kg. Edit: Postscript — is the "Professor Doug Ross" mentioned in these documents the same "Douglas T. Ross" mentioned in the acknowledgements of Ivan Sutherland's thesis? (Sketchpad 63) PPS: Yes- https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107611/oh178dtr.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107611/oh... (DOD 1, ВПК 0)

082349872349872 4y ago

Thanks, buildjets, and thanks, Boeing hackers: This made the 1103A the world’s largest, most expensive punched tape machine.[0] [Computers] could not draw lines on paper accurately enough for design purposes. ... We simply replaced the cutter head of the milling machine with a tiny diamond scribe ... and drew lines on sheets of aluminium. Also: ...the somewhat loose airframe manufacturers’ computer association got together to write an APT compiler for the IBM 7090 computers in 1961. Each company sent a single programmer to Convair in San Diego... It sounds as if the airframe manufacturer's computer association had better, or at least more effectively cooperative, "soviets"/"workers' circles" than the ОКБs. [0] for reference, the 1103A had a clock speed in the kHz, and weighed ~17'500 kg. Edit: Postscript — is the "Professor Doug Ross" mentioned in these documents the same "Douglas T. Ross" mentioned in the acknowledgements of Ivan Sutherland's thesis? (Sketchpad 63) PPS: Yes- https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107611/oh178dtr.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107611/oh... (DOD 1, ВПК 0)