Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD 86

AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 manual cover circa February 1984

I received another great addition to my collection of old AutoCAD releases, a AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 manual circa February 1984 from Mike Boldrick. This was one of the first available releases of AutoCAD ever shipped to customers.  I will publish more of this old manual in the future for nostalgic fun as we will soon celebrate the 35th year of AutoCAD.

In AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 there was no UNDO command, just an OOPS command as well as only 54 other commands. The old school method of UNDO was to not save the drawing and exit AutoCAD and then relaunch AutoCAD and open the drawing.

AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 manual circa February 1984AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 manual circa February 1984AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 manual circa February 1984AutoCAD 86 version 1.40 manual circa February 1984

Thank you Mike this 32 year old manual is in really great shape.

Cheers,
Shaan

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