AutoCAD 10? Icons you say?

I hope you mean the icons on the tablet menu on your digitizer!!! 😉

(Yes, it's an R14 menu, but that's what they looked like)

My pet peeve: People nostalgia-ing and getting years and hardware combos and versions mixed up.

E.g. "Yeah, I remember in 1992 we had a 386-100 with 5MB ram and a WHOPPING 50MB HDD 🤣"

SquallStrife wrote:

My pet peeve: People nostalgia-ing and getting years and hardware combos and versions mixed up.

E.g. "Yeah, I remember in 1992 we had a 386-100 with 5MB ram and a WHOPPING 50MB HDD 🤣"

This is more evident in even younger folk (the "pre-12 that fake their age to skip the COPPA check" crowd) who just need to pull out some numbers that sound "old" to them to impress on the forums. Fortunately there's a lack of that here. Sometimes this can even expand to mentioning influential video games, such as "wow doom i rember play that in 89 on my pentem"

leileilol wrote:

This is more evident in even younger folk (the "pre-12 that fake their age to skip the COPPA check" crowd) who just need to pull out some numbers that sound "old" to them to impress on the forums.

I doubt that phenomenon exists. I notice this more in terms of phrases like "my calculator could play something like this" with youtube comments etc

Nah I wouldn't consider that to be the same thing. Most of that is sarcasm anyway, "a potato could play this", "captured on a toaster", etc.

There's also that stupid "Quake on 386 with 2kb ram" video which was hidden recently, which i'd think would also fall in that false 'impress the internet with "old" computer' area for having improbable specs alone. The actual video was at least a Pentium CPU (no surfaceblock slowdown) playing the game being slowed down artificially in post-process, with the footage modified to reduce colors. (Quake has no support for anything less than 256-colors, and the use of post-editing color lookup is evident when the palette shift effects for item pickup were also translated)

Depends a lot on who it comes from. If some kids are posting something like "wtf 4MB video card I have GTX OVER 9000" I doubt it has to do much with sarcasm.

SquallStrife wrote:

My pet peeve: People nostalgia-ing and getting years and hardware combos and versions mixed up.

E.g. "Yeah, I remember in 1992 we had a 386-100 with 5MB ram and a WHOPPING 50MB HDD 🤣"

I know what you're talking about and I've seen that before, but to play devil's advocate, some of that could be younger people who are genuinely interested in learning about the hobby and haven't had enough experience yet to know better. Example: me! I'm learning about all this stuff retroactively out of interest, and I still find myself correcting myself on what belongs in what period as I learn.

tayyare wrote:

...It just maybe that I had realized the world is changing, earlier then some certain others... 😁

haha... touche!

For me: art/architecture school 1977-1983, so PCs were in their infancy. It took until the mid-90's before the computer offered a *real* productivity advantage for us, especially if you were skilled in the old ways. This wasn't like Graphic Design which took to computers immediately. Even so, as soon as I did switch [one of the last in my group of friends] it was no looking back. Yes hand drawing is a superior tool for design/concept, but computing takes production, manipulation, integration, simulation to a whole new level. BIM...

...Even so, as soon as I did switch [one of the last in my group of friends] it was no looking back....

In my previous job I was actively using Autocad and then IDEAS for designing tube cutting and forming machines. The general manager and owner of the company, my boss in short, a guy most probably of same age as you, was a brilliant engineer at the same time and loved making machine designs for us to manufacture. He had a dedicated drawing room with all the bells and whistles, in which he drafts all his designs on A0 papers by hand. I talked to him about leaving that job to me claiming that Autocad is much more productive. He said that he did not like to look at those feeble monitors, he liked his A0s much more. Then I ordered the biggest monitor available (22-24" or something) and show him what I can with Autocad in that one. He become immediately impressed, and started taking Autocad courses at nights. The guy I'm talking about was about 50 years old and the sole owner of a 100 million EU company... 😁 He was really an impressive guy and always been one of my role models as an engineer... 😊

To say the truth, I envy your generation... 😊