AutoCAD Flashback Friday – R11 for Macintosh

Here is a fun rare flashback to 1992 and the rare AutoCAD R11 for Macintosh. Having the actual R11 and R12 for Macintosh physical versions is like having your own private unicorn herd, in a CAD geek way.

From the AutoCAD Release 11 for Macintosh March 20, 1992 Installation Guide.

AutoCAD R11 for Macintosh manual illustration

In the vintage AutoCAD for Mac R11 and R12 versions, we used a mostly standard AutoCAD R11/R12 DOS User Interface on the Mac, but with the current AutoCAD for Mac we asked Mac users what they wanted, and they overwhelmingly wanted a native Mac UI experience with the menubar, palettes, and visors.

Now Back to the Future of today:

The current AutoCAD 2013 for the Mac
AutoCAD 2013 for Mac

The current AutoCAD 2014 Windows

AutoCAD 2014 Windows

3 comments

Julián says:

I think my strangest AutoCAD version is an OS/2. In MS-DOS times, it was awesome to have two drawings open, each one in its window, and edit one while the other was printing.

Michael Regan says:

A group of Unicorns is known as a blessing.

1992 … that’s the year i arrived in the U.S. (from Ethiopia) … my first college course ever was typing, then drafting, then autocad … i had never seen a computer ever before and i was 19 … 🙂

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