Firstly, I’d like to thank the few people who engaged on the last One Man’s Trash, which was clearly (but hopefully not too clearly) an April 1st prank. I’d have expected more people to “bite”, but then it was posted over the weekend, so perhaps not that many people saw it. Or perhaps it was obviously just for fun, in which case I hope people appreciated it at some level.
Anyway, today’s giveaway is fo realz, yo. An old friend and colleague in our Localization department, Paul-Henri Arnaud, dug out a number of digitizing tablet overlays dating back to the turn of the millenium. The first two are for AutoCAD R14 and are in English and French (circa 1997) while the second two are for AutoCAD 2000 in French and German (circa 1999).
These will be a very nice addition to any CAD enthusiast’s collection. Here’s a close-up of some of the R14 French commands:
In case some of you weren’t in the CAD industry when digitizing tablets were a thing… back when I started these…