Prehistoric CAD system...

From: Dennis Eldridge <bones_at_northrock.bm>
Date: Thu Feb 6 09:49:00 2003

In the mid-1980's I lived in Lowell, MA and my then wife (and briefly,
myself) worked for a circuit board design company. Their primary CAD system
was a PDP-11 based system from a company called, I believe, Telesys. It was
a very good system from my recollection; it used a dual-display concept
which was very efficient and had extremely good performance.

The actual design consoles looked a lot like arcade video game consoles.
There was a small monochrome CRT on the lower panel which displayed menus
which one used a light pen to navigate through, and which was also used for
drawing. One saw the results in "realtime" on the larger colour screen, all
very sharp.

Does anyone here have any more info on these. I do recall this being a
*very* good system, but I can't find mention in my web searches.

Thanks,

Dennis

"Come all ye roving minstrels
And together we will try
To raise the spirit of the Earth
And move the rolling Sky"
Received on Thu Feb 06 2003 - 09:49:00 GMT