ArchiCAD Flashback

[Anonymous]

Hey

I felt like talking about the "good" old days and would be interested to get some other story's, how it all started.

My first ArchCAD in the late 80ties was the 3.4 Version. Only 16 ( I think) layers which where numbered and you could not change. No curved walls, roofs, no polilynes, layout, not even plotmaker, no rendering, no stairmaker, I am sure there is more but can't remember.

I had a mac II ( I think ) 512 KB of RAM, 20 MB Harddrive, chip I think 16 MHZ, 21 inch screen black and white of course !

Costing if I rember correctly:

ArchiCAD 12000 Dollars
Computer 10000 Dollars
Screen 8000 Dollars
and if you after all this could aford a pen plotter another 29000 Dollars

So the workstation cost you: 59000 Dollars, can't belive today Architects where able to by this !

Cheers Carsten

ArchiCAD, 3D StudioMax, Vray
www.emdeimages.com.au

[Stress Co_]

A bit off topic...
But here is an early 19th century view of the "Future" Architect.
All he has to do is push a button.
My guess is, it's a Design/Build firm.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Stress wrote:
A bit off topic...
But here is an early 19th century view of the "Future" Architect.
All he has to do is push a button.
My guess is, it's a Design/Build firm.

Great illustration. Perhaps that panel of buttons is where Graphisoft got the idea for the Pet Palettes. 😉

[JaredBanks]

Where is that image from? It's awesome.

[Anonymous]

JaredBanks wrote:
Where is that image from? It's awesome.

My current job site 😄

[Anonymous]

That's how my past couple of bosses have thought Archicad works. "Just push the 'Redesign' button!"

[JaredBanks]

I think in version 13 that button was replaced with the "mind reading" toolbox. Or wait. That's just in REVIT.

[Djordje]

... happened by chance.

1995, late summer.

The editor of the magazine I wrote the CAD software reviews for called and said excitedly that a guy will come and bring a software for review that will blow my mind. It was 4.55, Windows. It did whatever I wanted at the time. Wrote a great review ...

... a year later, changed jobs, the new company incredibly wanted to invest in the software, it was of course 5.0.

Much later, realized that the first time I saw ArchiCAD in action was at the Construma exhibition in Budapest in the early 90s ... but at the time it was all Hungarian to me.

[Stress Co_]

JaredBanks wrote:
Where is that image from? It's awesome.

FRENCH PRINTS SHOW YEAR 2000 (And I should have said early 20th century).
It seems they accurately predicted podcasting and iPhone's "face time"..... well,.... sort of.

[Rakela Raul]

first acV6 (?) doing my first test for 'real' but
personal not to hurt any client !!

1.. result of test
2. under construction
3. built

[Rakela Raul]

under construction