- …PC.
- Well, kinda. The Victor demo was one
of the sleaziest things I have ever done. We didn't have the 8086
version even close to running on the Victor, but we wanted to be able
to show the “potential of CAD on the Victor”, so I wrote a
plot-to-file driver for Interact on the Marinchip 9900. This wrote
what we would call slide files today. Then I wrote a BASIC program on
the Victor that read these slides and drew them on the screen using a
Victor-supplied graphics driver for BASIC. It worked well enough to
convince Victor and many Victor dealers that CAD on a PC was
real—even if it wasn't real quite yet.