Archicad versions and compatibility

[Djordje]

Just as a reminder and a great overview:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/ArchiCAD_versions

[Anonymous]

nice site

i found this

but can this machine generate 3D model?!

[Dwight]

Sure it can.

How much time do you have? The miniscule amount of RAM it can hold would mean plenty of swapping the file to disk.

Calculation time aside, a machine that old would never have a hard drive large enough to contain a modern-sized model.......

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Sure it can.

How much time do you have? The miniscule amount of RAM it can hold would mean plenty of swapping the file to disk.

Calculation time aside, a machine that old would never have a hard drive large enough to contain a modern-sized model.......

Actually a machine that old did not have a hard drive at all!
Everything had to fit on a 512K disk...

[Eduardo Rolon]

and you had to learn to do the disk swapping dance;

insert disk 1
brrrrrrrr
pop out
insert disk 2
brrrrr
pop out
insert…

[Anonymous]

ejrolon wrote:
and you had to learn to do the disk swapping dance;

insert disk 1
brrrrrrrr
pop out
insert disk 2
brrrrr
pop out
insert…

Yes, it was sooo long, but you could have some fun while waiting. Remember the dancing bimbo? Already Apple's advanced features.
Incredible, it still works like a charm 20 years after! That is quality.

Configuration : Macintosh Plus, 1Mb, RAM 1Mo + external hard drive 80Mo (hudge, at the time).
Finder 836K, System 188K (bottom screen). Hehe, 20 years more, and perhaps it will be a collector.

Without surprise, mostly 512K original disks are unreadable. So it can only work thanks to the external hard drive.
I didn't think a hard drive could live so long, without loosing informations.