Group 1 Is Live: How to Make an Offer on Early Autodesk Memorabilia

Group 1 Is Live. Here’s How to Make an Offer on CAD History.

Original Post Autodesk Artifacts Need a Better Home Than My Storage

The offer window opened March 23. You have until April 5 to send me an offer.

Here’s how it works.
Email me. Tell me which item or items you want. Give me your best number. And tell me what you’re planning to do with it. That last part matters as much as the number. I’m not running a typical auction here – I’m trying to get these things to the right place. A smaller offer with a real plan behind it may beat a higher offer from someone who just wants to win something. Frame it, donate it, put it in a collection where people can see it – whatever the plan is, tell me. That’s the deal. No licenses are being transferred, these are purely plastic and paper memorabilia from the early days of Autodesk, back when it was a small scrappy startup in 1982. If I accept, you get an email back. We sort out shipping, you settle within the day. Read more from Autodesk founder John Walker’s The Autodesk File.

What’s in Group 1: The early CADalyst and CADENCE magazines, the printed AutoCAD manuals, the floppy disks including the AutoCAD-86 1st release, 1st Revit, R14 flip flops, Chaos The Software, Cellular Automata. Some of the stuff that came to me from the closure of the Autodesk Technical Library in San Rafael when it shut down. Staff gave everything away rather than watch it go in the trash. Some other artifacts came from former colleagues and founders directly, and readers mailed or handed to me over the years.

On The Nozzle: this is the actual object. Not a scan, not a reprint, not something someone modeled and printed last Tuesday. The physical thing that was used to create the original AutoCAD 2D sample drawing, and then became the Autodesk Inventor assembly sample when 3D arrived. If you’ve spent any time in AutoCAD you’ve seen this object on screen.

A laptop displaying a technical drawing of The Nozzle seen in the early AutoCAD sample drawing next to the real physical nozzle.

Groups 2 and 3 are coming.

Now it’s time to find it a better home than my storage unit.
Two weeks. Email. Number and story, both required.

Cheers,
-Shaan

Group 1 Autodesk Memorabilia

Item 001
CADalyst Magazine Jan/Feb 1985 Vol.2 No.1
Item 002
CADalyst Magazine April 1988 Vol.5 No.3
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003 AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003 AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003 AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 003
AutoCAD – 86 Manual February 24, 1984
Item 004
AutoCAD – 86 March 1983
Item 004
AutoCAD – 86 March 1983
Item 005
AutoCAD – 1.23 Manual
Item 005
AutoCAD – 1.23 Manual
Item 005
AutoCAD – 1.23 Manual
Item 006
AutoCAD sample drawing floppy Nov.11 1983
Item 007
AutoCAD Simulator for AutoCAD R12. Still in shrink wrap
Item 007
AutoCAD Simulator for AutoCAD R12. Still in shrink wrap
Item 008
Autodesk The Home Series Bathroom Ed. 1991 from the GeneriCAD Team
Item 008
Autodesk The Home Series Bathroom Ed. 1991 from the GeneriCAD Team
Item 009
The infamous Nozzle used in 2D AutoCAD sample drawings and 3D assembly of Autodesk Inventor
Item 009
The infamous Nozzle used in 2D AutoCAD sample drawings and 3D assembly of Autodesk Inventor
Item 009
The infamous Nozzle used in 2D AutoCAD sample drawings and 3D assembly of Autodesk Inventor
Item 010
NAAUG North American AutoCAD User Group Resource CD 1995 NAAUG became AUGU
Item 010
NAAUG North American AutoCAD User Group Resource CD 1995 NAAUG became AUGI
Item 011
CADalyst Magazine April 1984
Vol.1 No.2
Item 011
CADalyst Magazine April 1984
Vol.1 No.2
Item 011
CADalyst Magazine April 1984
Vol.1 No.2
Item 011
CADalyst Magazine April 1984
Vol.1 No.2
Item 012
AutoCAD R14 mousepad
Item 013
AutoCAD R14 flip flop Sandler. They leave the words “AutoCAD R14” in the sand. Size Lg 9-1/2 – 11-1/2
Item 013
AutoCAD R14 flip flop Sandler. They leave the words “AutoCAD R14” in the sand
Item 014
Revit 1.01 CD package
Item 014
Revit 1.01 CD package
Item 015
Revit 1.0 CD package
(the first Revit!)
Item 015
Revit 1.0 CD package
Item 016
Autodesk University Los Angeles 1997 sealed resource disk
Item 017
AutoCAD R14.01 CD package
Item 017
AutoCAD R14.01 CD package
Item 018
Rudy Ruckers Cellular Automata Laboratory 1989
Item 018
Rudy Ruckers Cellular Automata Laboratory 1989
Item 018
Rudy Ruckers Cellular Automata Laboratory 1989
Item 019
AutoCAD Self Evaluation Tool 1995
Item 019
AutoCAD Self Evaluation Tool 1995
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 020
James Gleicks Chaos The Software 1992 (rare)
Item 021
AutoCAD 86 for TI floppy 1984
Item 022
Autodesk University Chicago 1996 Source CD with some very notable faces on the cover Lynn and Dave
Item 022
Autodesk University Chicago 1996 Source CD with some very notable faces on the cover Lynn and Dave
Item 023
Framed Autodesk’ AutoCAD early logo for company cards.
Item 024
CADalyst Magazine Oct/Dec 1984 Vol.1 No.5
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 025
AutoCAD- 80 for CP/M80 Manual April 1983 (oldest manual)
Item 026
AutoCAD digitizer template
Autodesk Memorabilia Group 1

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