O\T The Original name of MasterCam

[Guy Arseneault]

Check this out. Go to this website. Go to 1984 read the message and then click on CompuCam, there's a footnote.

 

Just a little history lesson.

 

 

http://www.compumachine.com/AboutUs/History.htm

[Scott Bond]

Thanks Guy

 

I would like to know more early Mastercam stuff.

What year did they give it the name Mastercam?

Does any one have a set of V0 disks?

Does any one have a set of early disks?

I will let them have my bonus check from the

Forum for 2003.

[TheePres]

I remember the name "Quicksilver"...was this just the dealers name??

[Scott Bond]

I had a quick Silver, but I think I had something just before it(what a blurr). I am going to look at my old records tonight just to see if I can find something.

 

Old dealers names

Charley Haddock( Quick Silver ?)

Tom Schular

Steve Danford

 

Who do you remember?

 

[ 03-03-2003, 08:20 PM: Message edited by: Scott Bond ]

[Rick Damiani]

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Tom Schular

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This name is familar, but I can't quite place it. I'm pretty sure I've heard it around the office.

 

Thomas Paton and Associates has been doing CAD/CAM stuff for a really long time. Tom got stared in '84 or thereabouts selling VersaCAD [1] out of the back of his van. We are pretty sure that he was the first educaitonal CAM reseller, or at least one of the first. A lot of the 'old timers' in SoCal know Tom, and keep in touch.

 

Along those lines, I have a cadapple system, compete with CP/M card and *two* floppy drives in my office for anyone who wants to experence a blast from the past. I'm not sure if it still works, as I'm afraid to plug it in...

 

[1] Come to a show we are at and look inside one of our free-standing displays. They still say 'VersaCAD' on them...

[iowajim62]

Hi Rick,

 

I worked at a shop called DeFox Co. back in '85 down in Torrance who had this system.

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Along those lines, I have a cadapple system, compete with CP/M card and *two* floppy drives in my office for anyone who wants to experence a blast from the past. I'm not sure if it still works, as I'm afraid to plug it in...

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As I recall they were 5 1/4" Floppies, 1 for the O/S and 1 for the app. It brings back memories. Is it the Green or Red Monitor ?

 

Speaking of the past, anybody remember the old Cincinnati 20VC2000 with the 8" Floppy Drive?

 

[ 03-04-2003, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: iowajim62 ]

[MACHINEMASTERG]

i remember a little program called clear cut was this early mastercam or some type of knock off????

[Jerry Bichsel]

I remember getting a demo from the Anilam dealer in Dallas in 1987, I believe, on their Anicam product. It was Mastercam v2.? with the Anilam front end.

[MACHINEMASTERG]

i remember using anilams anicam and minicam and all the geometry was untrimed just lines and arcs everywhere and you talked the tool around like l1 to l2 ccw arc1 cw arc2 -l3 anyone else recall this old stuff man weve come along way !!!

[Surface]

Compumachine is in the town where I work and Mark Summers installed our first CNC mill in 1980. He is a great guy and I'm glad to see that he has had so much success.

BTW, I still use that machine

[gcode]

Anicam was my first CAM system too.

I bought it used for $350 including the computer

(an NEC running 2 8 in floppies)

Pockets were a real chore with that system!

[Scott Bond]

My first Mastercam work was in 1986.

[Ron Roderick]

I bought my first cnc mill from Compumachine in 1986. It was a Compumill 2500. I went there to their shop for a demo of the conversational control. It had a Delta 10 control with an add on for Cavity milling that I used to make a tapered slot for a nailing gun head. I had the machine for five years. The machine had two other owners after me. All programming was done done by manual entry. Finally bought a Tandy 1000 to load and download programs. I had used a GE tape recorder before that. I still have some of those tapes. Learned the hard way.

 

Ron Roderick

Past Small Shop Owner

[Jeremy Grigsby Excelsior Marking]

I kind of thought that Clear Cut was turned into mastercam. It has pretty much the same menu layout and process to go through

[Scott Bond]

JeremyG nice forum member number(4444)

 

 

I would like to accurately record the history, any help will be welcomed.

 

Does any one have a set of V1 disks?

[RandyN]

First cam software I used was geostac, ran off a 5 1/4 floppy on a apple II, before that it was manual programming for me.

[Karl@CP PISTONS]

First Cam software was Nicam III running on a pdp-11. Cost the company 25k just for the hardware. It had a then enourmous 5 MEG hard drive and two floppies (5 1/4 combined storage was 128 k). We splurged on a monitor though it would do 3 colors red blue and green.