Old software

[jayhawksigns]

Found our original CASMate box while doing some cleaning, tossed on the shelf with the rest of our old software and though I would snap a pic. Missing a few bits, like a copy of PhotoPrint, and our original Onyx RIP. Both of which together have a story to go with them, which lead us to the long standing relationship that we have with one of our suppliers.

Fun to look back, and notice how everything has gotten smaller over the years.

 

[Colin]

I think I still have my old DOS Casmate floppies kicking around somewhere in the basement.

 

[TwoNine]

CASMate...Whoa. Been a while since I seen that box! The last time I used that was in 2000 or 2001 (I think 01) - then got the BIG upgrade....Vinyl Master Pro....I remember thinking how cool VMP was that you could actually design in fills - Edit text visually - All those really cool and improved 'features'! Good times.

This gives me an idea for a good post....'What's the first sign you remember making?" - I will do that now and tell you all how I got into the sign game!

 

[round man]

I still have a copy and dongle somewhere for cadlink(the dos precurser to signlab,it was a 4b emulator program with a distortion module) the last time I used it I booted off a floppy disk to dos from a machine the hard drive had crashed on and used it to cut some quickie job,...seems the machine had 32 mb of ram and the program was designed to run off of 640kb ram never needed a hard drive for it to work go figure,...seems like the dongle number was something like 00015 and written on the dongle in ink pen,...it ran great on that 12mz 286 with 2 mb of ram and a 20mb hard disk,...even had a digitizeing tablet and a 9600 baud modem hooked up to that "Design station" that cost me almost $2000 in 1990,....also had a HP scanner that cost me over $1500 to that machine,...my cell phone has more powerful cpu than that first computer had,and more memory....go figure

 

[tsgstl]

That was the first sign specific software I used, 94'
To this day I keep a 10 year old copy of signlab on my accounting computer. I'm much faster creating shapes with the dot to dot editing system. I wish flexi offered that way of node editing. I only switched to flexi because it was bundled with my printer/plotter. Not that I feel one is better than the other but I am more "at home" with signlab.

Anyone still have old zip drive cartridges laying around? My entire years files would fit on one or two. I have wrap files x5 bigger than one cartridge I bet.

 

[Mosh]

I still have SignLab V2 on floppy and Corel the oringinal on floppy. Waiting for American Pickers to show up!
i remember when Corel 3 came out on CD I was So impressed!! LOL! I wish I still had my Gerber Sprint with all TEN fonts....BTW fonts were $250 each.

 

[Kottwitz-Graphics]

I have the install disks (3.5") for CrashMate here in my misc. software box on a shelf in my office...

I still use CrashMate for some things, like creating a perspective shadowing.

 

[Steph_Stamm]

Awesome pic! And thanks for your loyalty, from all of us at SAi.

 

[DrCAS]

I loved CASmate... That is how i got my nickname... DrCAS.

 

[Techman]

I loved win98SE. That's where I got the name of Dr. Know

 

[OldPaint]

MOSH, me thinks you had to much to drink. COREL V3.......did not come on a CD. 1st cd i remember in corel was v5. i still have 3 & 4 on floppies, CD readers then was $3-400 for one.

 

[Mosh]

MOSH, me thinks you had to much to drink. COREL V3.......did not come on a CD. 1st cd i remember in corel was v5. i still have 3 & 4 on floppies, CD readers then was $3-400 for one.

I had a CD drive since 1990, read only drives were not that much. The writable ones were big money until 94-95. Here is a pic of my Corel 3 cd, reads copywrite 1991 made in Canada, I don't think I had it until 92 though.

 

[Techman]

OP just got spanked!!! again.