Contents

• Introduction
• Working Paper
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Which brings me to...
  • General development strategy
  • Form of organization
    • Headquarters services.
    • Administrative services.
    • Marketing services.
    • Project coordination.
    • Manufacturing.
    • Product development.
    • Product maintenance.
    • Product evaluation.
    • Market research.
    • Marketing assistance.
    • Planning assistance.
  • Mode of operation
  • Product development cycle
  • Money and management
  • Commitments of time
  • The nature of potential products
  • Hardware and system strategy
  • Why get involved?
  • Nitty-gritty
  • What do we do next
  • Agenda
• Information Letter 1
  • Structure of the business
  • The issue of liability
  • Changes after the business is running
  • Terminating products
  • What to call the company
  • How much of a share to buy
  • Order of magnitude financial figures
  • The role of MSL principals
  • The promise of this venture
  • Responsiveness
  • Philosophy
  • Potential Products for MSP
    • Existing products
      • INTERACT.
      • QBASIC.
      • C.
      • SORT.
      • WINDOW.
      • SPELL.
      • LENS.
      • DIFF.
      • SELECTOR.
    • New products
      • Executive planning aid.
      • Cardfile.
      • MAPPER.
      • Forms generator.
      • Menu-oriented TS.
      • JPLDIS.
• Information Letter 2
  • Alternate forms of organisation
  • New participants
  • Resumes
  • ``Edges''
  • Nightmare
  • What's going on
• What to Name the Company
• Information Letter 3
  • The business entity
  • Issuance of shares
  • Buying equipment
  • Working capital
  • Stock options
  • Personal holding companies
  • Conflicts of interest
  • New people
  • Names, names, names
  • Paperwork
  • Next meeting
  • Proposed Organization Plan for MSP
    • Initial Issue Of Securities
    • Stock Options
    • Liabilities of the Corporation
• Information Letter 4
  • New organization plan
  • General meeting
  • Plans: Incorporation
  • Technical progress
  • Technical plans
    • MicroCAD:
    • Autodesk:
    • Opticalc:
    • Window:
• Initial Stock Distribution
• Information Letter 5
  • Progress Organising the Company
  • Changes from Original Organisation Plan
  • What Happens Next
  • Just a Few More Little Things
  • Regular Meetings
  • Purchasing
  • Micro-CAD Progress
  • Autodesk Progress
  • Other Product Progress
  • Product Polish and Packaging
  • Subchapter S Election Alternative
  • Autodesk Products
    • MicroCAD
    • Autodesk
    • Window
    • Diff
    • Opti-Calc
    • Communicator
    • JPLDIS
    • QBASIC
    • Commodity Trading Package
  • Autodesk Work Distribution
    • MicroCAD
    • Autodesk
    • Window
    • Diff
    • Opti-Calc
    • Communicator
    • JPLDIS
    • QBASIC
    • General research and development
      • Apples
      • 5 1/4 inch discs
      • Screen driver package
    • Documentation production
      • Software manufacturers
• Information Letter 6
  • Marketing Progress
  • IBM PC
  • File Transfer
  • Offsite Backup
  • Floppy Discs
  • 68000 System Prospects
  • Medical Software Deal
  • Coming to Terms with the 8086
  • Black Hole Alert
  • Monthly Meeting--Subchapter S Form
  • Autodesk Status
  • Communicator Status
  • Random Bits
• Information Letter 7
  • Where We Are and Where We Are Going
  • Autodesk Status
  • QBASIC86 Progress
  • MicroCAD Status
  • Window Progress
  • Task Lists
  • Conference System Notes
  • Organization Details
  • C
  • Random Bits
  • July General Meeting Minutes
    • Marketing
    • Financial report
    • Progress reports
    • CPM Charts
    • Various business
  • Future agendas
  • Auto Book Notes
    • The Concept
    • READ -- Reading an Auto Book
      • READ Commands
        • Add word to references.
        • And word with references.
        • Subtract word from references.
        • Clear references.
        • List references.
        • Show referenced text.
        • List section titles.
        • Select marked sections.
        • New document.
      • Help facility.
    • SCAN -- The preprocessor
      • SCAN Commands
      • Trying SCAN
    • Ideas for the future
• Information Letter 8
  • Other Items
• August 1982 Meeting
  • Changes in Participation
  • Minutes and Financial Report
  • Progress Reports
  • Random Business
  • Project Discussions
    • Marketing
    • Autodesk
    • JPLDIS
    • MICROCAD
    • QB86
    • Window
    • Corporate
  • Appendix
    • Task Lists
    • MJK Usage
    • Next Meeting
    • Agendas
• AutoCAD-80 Development Log
• 1982 Annual Meeting
• Quality Department Priorities
  • Development of Specifications
  • Qualification Testing
  • Test Management
  • Discrepancy Logging
  • Release Certification
  • Regression Testing
  • Cost of Quality
• Meetings: December '82, January '83
  • December Meeting
  • January Meeting
  • Summary of Decisions Taken
• February 1983 Meeting
  • Minutes and Financial Report
  • Board of Directors
  • Project Reports
    • Marketing
    • AutoCAD-86
    • AutoCAD-80
    • AutoDesk
    • AutoScreen
    • Corporate
  • Trade Shows
  • Manpower
  • Summary of Decisions
• March 1983 Meeting
  • Odd Jobs
  • Software Control Policies
    • Proprietary Rights
    • Quality Control
    • Proliferation
    • Delegation
    • Proposals
• June 1983 Meeting
  • Introduction
  • Attendees
  • Financial Report: John Walker
  • Board of Directors Report
  • Marketing Report: John Walker filling in for Mike Ford
  • Reports from Europeans
    • Richard
    • Lars
    • Rudolf
  • Domestic Sales Summary
  • Corporate Status Report
  • Operational Report: John Kern
  • Customer Support
  • Incentive Options
  • AutoCAD-86 Status Report
  • AutoCAD-80
  • AutoCAD-68K
  • Prometrix
  • Company Problems
  • SunFlex
  • Autodesk: Mike Riddle
  • Autoterm: Rudolf
  • Resumes
  • Equipment List
• AutoCAD Wish List
  • Introduction
  • High priority ``quick kills''
    • Alternate arc specification
    • Text size by length
    • Layer-to-layer move
    • Standard drawing config setup
    • Drawing header to DXF file
    • XOR grids when possible
    • Change ``REDRAW ON/OFF'' to ``FILL ON/OFF''
    • Change ``RES'' to ``SNAP''
    • Change ``P1, P2'' point prompts
    • Change ``Cmd:'' to ``Command:''
    • Enhanced HELP facility
    • INSERT angle governed by ORTHO
    • Stop using square brackets
  • High priority larger items
    • Polylines
    • Cross-hatch/pattern-fill
    • Splines
    • Double walls
    • Line types & color
    • Geometric snap
    • Breaking walls/partial delete
    • Fillets
    • IGES support
    • Block output
    • Redefining blocks
    • Complete dimensioning
    • Large plotters (32K problem)
    • Generic user manual
    • Function keys on reference card
    • Foreign language versions
  • Lower priority items
    • Point variables
    • Extended entity selection
    • Entity tags
    • ``Toy'' bill of materials
    • EDIT command
    • Extended OOPS (UNDO)
    • Rejecting added entities
    • Repeat last selection
    • New LAYER command
    • GRID enhancements
    • SNAP enhancements
    • Parts library
    • File system interface
    • Global coordinate transform
    • ELLIPSE command
    • Direct commands vs. INSERT
    • Transformations and INSERT *
    • Right-justified text
    • Feet & inches
    • Names for internal variables
    • Menu/keyboard macros
    • Redefine machine interface
    • Mode status display
    • Asynchronous mode switches
    • Arc traces-doughnuts
    • Various cross-hair types
    • Enhanced text fonts
    • Multiple text fonts
    • ZOOM/LIMITS confusion
    • Views
    • Don't regen invisible layers
    • Rework REPEAT
    • Generalize redraw files
    • Area and perimeter
    • QPLOT for additional printers
    • 3D
  • Questionable items
    • Should entities have colors?
    • Aligned dimensions
    • Ex post facto SNAP
    • Display snapped crosshair
    • Relational entities
    • Display axes
    • Drawing types
    • Alignment of entities
    • Shape dragging
    • DXF to CalComp program
• Crisis Letter
• John Walker's Business Plan
  • Organisation
  • Budgeting
  • Priorities--Marketing Division
  • Priorities--Operations Division
  • Priorities--Technical Division
  • Technical Project Management
  • Salary Scales
• Proposed Autodesk Organization
  • Problems
  • Solutions
  • Proposed Structure
  • Recommendations
  • Job Descriptions
    • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    • Manager of Finance and Administration Division
    • Manager of Marketing Division
    • Manager of Operations Division
    • Manager of Technical Division
• July 1983 Meeting
  • Attendees
  • Summary of Management Meeting: Dan Drake
  • Financial Report: John Walker
  • Marketing Report: Mike Ford
  • More Marketing: John Walker
  • International Sales
  • Corporate Status Report
  • Operational Report: John Kern
  • AutoCAD-86 Report: Keith
  • AutoCAD-80 Report: John
  • Miscellaneous
  • Personnel
  • Equipment List
• Low Rent 3D
• Electric Malcolm
• October 1983 Meeting
• Piece of Cake
• Information Letter 10
• Information Letter 11
  • Party Time
  • What's Going On Here
  • The Slingshot and Success
• The Deal on the Table
• AutoCAD Lite
• Taxes and Such
  • Warrants
  • Stock Options
  • Alternative Minimum Tax
  • Publicly Traded Stock
  • Insiders and Rule 16(b)
• Why Lisp?
• Number One
• Prime Time
  • Reply Time
• Initial Public Offering
  • General Background
  • Product Strategy
  • Products
    • AutoCAD
    • Mainframe CAD Interfaces
    • AE/CADD
    • CAD/camera
    • Developers' Tool Kit
    • AutoCAD Applications Program
  • The Toilet Announcement
  • Marketing Strategy
  • The Entire Prospectus
  • Sleazy Motel Roach Hammer Awards
• Surplus Value
  • Taxes
  • Investments
  • Greed and Fear
  • Beyond the Lock-up Period
• Information Letter 12
  • Mid-Game
  • Burning Questions Of Our Movement
  • What Business Is the Company In?
  • Product Style
  • What do we do next?
  • The Next AutoCAD
  • The American Dream
• Time of Turbulence
  • Memo to everybody
  • Remarks at the company meeting
• Speech at Silverado
• Super Programmers
  • We're The Best: You're The Best
  • We Don't Want Less Than The Best
  • What You've Heard About Us Is True
• CAD: the Heart of Computer Science
  • What is Computer Aided Design?
  • What Should a CAD System Be?
  • What Does Simulation Have To Do With It?
  • What Do You Do To Get There?
  • The Heart of Computer Science
• The Computer Revolution
  • Abstract
  • Background
    • The Computer Revolution
    • What You See Is What You Get
    • The Service Economy
  • The Evolution Of Computer Interfaces
  • Attempts To Extend the Interface
  • ``Go Do'' Considered Shameful
  • Son Of Batch
  • Building Subservient Systems
  • Summary
• AutoBits
  • Job Titles
  • AutoSketch: Not Insane
  • Autodesk Technical Seminars
  • CAD: The Final Frontier
  • Marinchip Defeats IBM
  • Dear Jim Meadlock...
  • Yet Wah 3D
  • Spine Police
  • VHSIC-Based Product Stuns Industry
  • What Is 3D What
  • AutoShield
  • The Guts of a New Machine
  • The Bozo Filter
  • High Performance Bicycles
    • Propulsion.
    • Braking.
    • Guidance, Navigation, and Control.
    • Countermeasures.
    • Survival, evasion, and escape.
    • Fuel.
    • Weaponry.
    • Command and control.
    • Configuration and performance.
  • A Journey Not to Forget
  • AutoThing
• Flat-out Programming
• Hardware Lock Debater's Guide
• Information Letter 13
  • Ground rules
  • The management switch
• Cadetron and Solid Modeling
  • How Do We Do It?
  • Product Positioning
  • How Does All This Really Work?
• Removing the Hardware Lock
• Urgent Fury
  • The Menu Bar
  • Extended Object Selection
    • Box selection.
    • Automatic selection.
    • Single selection mode.
  • Menu Item Repetition
  • Multiple Command Modifier
  • Command Redefinition
  • Dialogue-Oriented Commands
    • DDRMODES command.
    • DDEMODES command.
• The Portable Data Base
  • Background
  • The Binary I/O Package
  • Modifying AutoCAD
    • The Drawing Database
      • The drawing header.
      • The symbol tables.
      • The entity headers.
    • Shape and text font files
    • DXB files
    • Slide files
  • Compatibility status summary
  • Upper and lower case
• Breaking the 3D Logjam
• Jeremiad
• Urgent Worry
• The Golden Age of Engineering
• Cosmic Perspective
• External Tanks
• Source Distribution
• The Morning After
• Glasnost
• Where's It All Going?
• Xanadu
  • Ted Nelson Joins Autodesk
• Bored of Directors
• Valedictory
• L'Envoi: the First Six Years
• Technological Leadership
  • AutoCAD Release 10
  • AutoCAD For The Macintosh
  • AutoCAD Release 11
  • AutoCAD AEC
  • AutoSketch
  • AutoShade
  • User Interfaces
  • Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
• Through the Looking Glass
  • User interaction generations
    • First generation: Knobs and dials
    • Second generation: Batch
    • Third generation: Timesharing
    • Fourth generation: Menus
    • Fifth generation: Graphics
  • What next?
  • Through the screen to cyberspace
  • Building cyberspace
    • Cyberspace Hardware
    • Cyberspace Software
    • Cyberspace Environments
  • Should Autodesk lead?
    • Autodesk's business
    • Autodesk's technological leadership
    • Autodesk's future
    • Autodesk's investment
    • Autodesk's opportunity
    • Autodesk's decision
• AutoCAD Expo Moscow
• Golden Hammer
• One Hundred Million Dollars
• The New Technological Corporation
  • Theme 1: The time value of money
    • First prelude: The age of takeovers
    • Reinvestment and risk
    • The invisible hand and its elbow
    • Recapitulation
  • Theme 2: Leverage vs. debt
    • Second prelude: A dirt mine in Idaho
    • Leverage through debt
    • Inherent leverage
    • Technological leverage
    • Recapitulation: nonlinearity and gain
  • Theme 3: The talent-constrained enterprise
    • Third prelude: What is this, really?
    • The shape of a business
    • Wild Talents
    • Recapitulation
  • Theme 4: Quantum economics
    • Fourth prelude: Aggregates aren't reality
    • Economics as events
    • Recapitulation
  • Theme 5: Equilibrium and efficient markets
    • Fifth prelude: October 19th, 1987
    • A quiet, normal day
    • Equilibrium and information
    • Recapitulation
  • Variation 1: The New Technological Corporation
    • New...
    • Technological...
    • Corporations...
  • Variation 2: What to do with the money?
    • Reinvest it in the business?
    • Retain it and grin?
    • Pay dividends?
      • Why not dividends?
      • Is interest more interesting?
      • The cost of double taxation
      • Dividends as an equaliser
      • Tax-exempt investors: the privileged many
      • Capricious Congress
      • The dividend treadmill
      • Dividends and founder-ownership
      • Will income be king again?
      • Mature before its years?
      • Dividends: a complicated choice
    • A strategic partnership?
    • Make acquisitions?
      • Buying technology
      • Consolidation among New Technological Corporations
      • Acquisitions of conventional companies
  • Variation 3: Competitive strategies
    • Spending information, not cash
    • Cheap development: expensive reaction
    • Low margin product introductions
    • Riding out hard times
    • Dividends and the strategy of denial
  • Conclusions and recommendations
• Generic Software Acquisition
• Why Cellular Automata?
  • Rudy's Answer
  • John's Answer
• Understanding AMIX
  • The Information Age
  • Markets
  • Information Markets
  • Obvious Markets
  • Non-critical Issues
  • Why AMIX?
• Batting .300
• We'll Return, After This Message
• Caustic Moment
  • A Brief History Of IGES
  • Goals and Strategy
  • Implementation Notes
    • Using IGES Modules
    • Extracting Core Routines
    • The AutoCAD Database Emulator
      • Loading A Database
        • System variables.
        • Database index file.
        • Symbol table files.
      • Using The Database
      • Closing The Database
    • Development Environment
  • Additional ADS Requirements
  • User Notes
  • Summary and Future Directions
  • Conclusion
• The Hardware Lock Strikes Back
• ``Autodesk Arrogance''
• Why Molecular Modeling?
  • Filter 1: It stands to benefit from increasing compute power
  • Filter 2: It is central to emerging technologies
  • Conclusion
• Whither AutoCAD?
  • Introduction
  • Autodesk as High-End Vendor
  • The Business of Autodesk
  • An Opportunity
  • The High End: What is it?
  • Traditional CAD/CAM
  • The View from the Top
  • Real Users buy Desktop CAD
  • Drafting vs the Total Solution
  • The Autodesk Customer
  • The Turnkey Customer
  • Integration as the Key
  • Design/Manufacturing Process
    • Analysis and Refinement:
    • Design for Manufacture:
    • Drafting and Documentation:
    • Toolpath Creation & Machining:
  • The Total Solution
  • The Reality
  • The Market
  • Mechanical Design Automation
    • Modeling:
    • Parametrics/Constraint Management:
    • Integration of Iterative Steps:
  • AutoCAD Designer
  • Technical Content
  • AutoCAD
  • Conclusions
  • Final Words
• Nanotechnology in Manufacturing
  • What's Been Happening
  • CPU Performance
  • Oh Wow
  • Oh Well
  • Oh Shit
  • Oh Yeah!
  • Technological Transitions
  • Five Industrial Revolutions
  • Metre Scale
  • Metres To Millimetres
  • Millimetres To Micrometres
  • Micrometres To Nanometres
  • Plenty Of Room
  • Writing With Atoms
  • Molecular Engineering
  • Many Challenges--But Many Paths To Follow
  • Steps Along the Way: Molecular Electronics
  • Bacteriorhodopsin Optical Memory
  • Sixth Industrial Revolution: Molecular Engineering
  • Seventh Industrial Revolution: Replicating Machines
  • The Argument For Design
• Max Q
  • Management by lack of alternatives
  • A very different world
  • Max Q
  • Modern Problems
    • Recession
    • Bear market
    • Real estate crash
    • Dollar collapse
    • Debt liquidation
    • Japan
    • Dealer devastation
    • Bad quarter
    • Technological confusion
  • Autodesk confronts an uncertain future
    • Conserve cash
    • Don't buy back stock at current levels
    • Don't buy real estate
    • Diversify out of the dollar
    • Continue to think internationally
    • Throttle back immediate growth plans
    • Prepare alternative distribution plans
    • Provide guidance to resellers and customers
    • Do Windows
    • AutoCAD as an open system
    • Anticipate technological change
  • Summary of recommendations
  • Conclusion
• Information Letter 14
  • Prologue: The Quaint Eighties
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • ``The Game Has Changed''
  • The Game Has Changed Again
  • Modern Times
    • Big--more software in the box
    • Cheap
    • Widely available
    • Closely integrated--the emerging standard platform
    • The first modern CAD product
  • Modern Problems
    • How to lose sales and market share through imagination and hard work
    • Benign neglect: silence in the marketplace
  • The Risks Of Caution
    • The stainless steel web
    • Challenges and Challenger
  • The Nightmare Scenario
  • Marginalia
    • Money in the bank
    • Margin vs. management
    • The incredible shrinking budget
  • Business Development
  • Winning
    • How to take over the whole graphics industry in a year or so
      • Manage our products.
      • Help the dealers.
      • Low cost marketing initiatives.
      • Near--term upgrade of AutoCAD.
      • AutoCAD future development.
      • Own the raster market.
      • New CAD system.
  • A Bodyguard Of Fears
    • ``Betting the company''
    • ``Fiduciary duty''
    • ``The human wave''
    • ``Throwing money at problems''
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: The Final Days
• View from the Ridge
• Valuing Corporate Image
• Simulation Isn't Reality
• The New Autodesk
  • Problem 1: Overhead
  • Problem 2: Responsibility
  • Problem 3: Responsiveness
  • Problem 4: Planning
  • Goals of the Restructuring
  • Types of organizations
    • Business Units
    • Service centers
    • Corporate functions
  • Product Lines
    • Tentative Product Lines and Business Units
      • AutoCAD Family
      • Multimedia Family
      • Retail Software Family
      • Molecular Modeling Family
      • Information Family
      • Other Business units
    • Service Centers
      • General Concepts with Service Centers
        • Billable Versus Non-Billable Activities
        • Review of Services
        • NonUse of Service Centers
        • Guideline Documents and Authority
    • New service centers:
      • Corporate Marketing:
      • Developer Services:
    • Existing Organizations Proposed As Service Centers
      • General procedure for moving people from service-like existing departments to the new structure
    • Corporate Functions
      • Proposed corporate functions include:
    • Interactions Between Organizations
      • The Executive Review Board
      • Weekly Meeting of Al's Staff
      • Tact as a Component of Management
    • General Management Team
      • Criteria for assessing a GM
      • Contractual Authority
    • Product Manager, Obligations and Authority
      • Criteria for assessing a PM
  • Responsibilities of VPs of Marketing and Technology
    • The Vice Presidents of Marketing and of Technology have the following responsibilities:
  • Review of Employees in a Matrix Organization
  • Questions and Answers
  • Items to watch for future modification
    • Acknowledgements
  • The New Autodesk: June 28, 1991 Change Pages
    • Service Centers
    • Service Center Guidelines
    • Service Centers Serving Other Organizations
    • Definition of Matrixed Employees
    • The Sales Service Center Budgeting Process
    • The Library
    • Japan Group
    • The Science Series
    • The Corporate Marketing Group
    • Training
    • Check Signing Versus Expenditure Authority
    • Incorporating Customer Feedback
    • Areas For Continuing Assessment
• Choose Wisely
  • Whose hand on the tiller?
  • How much, and when?
  • Possible and impossible.
• Added Value
• Stating the Problem
• Al Green Retires
• Incentives, Deterrence, and Defence
  • The CD-ROM
  • AutoCAD Global Village
  • Your Suggestion Here
• Searching for a New CEO
  • Assumptions
  • Requirements
  • Process
  • Conclusion
• European Software Centre
• The Dark Night of the Soul
• Reporter at Work
  • Title
  • Introduction
  • Interview transcript
  • Anatomy of a smear
• AutoCAD for Windows
• MicroTimes
• New Leadership for Autodesk
• Farewell, Xanadu
  • Autodesk Press Release
  • AMIX Press Release
  • Message from Carol Bartz
• Micro Engineering Solutions Acquisition
  • Len Rand on the MES Acquisition
  • Press Release
  • Q&A On MES Acquisition
• Patent Nonsense
• Programs Are Programs
  • World War Four
  • Background--Is Software a Business?
  • It's a Program, Stupid
  • Let's Crunch Some Numbers
  • Does This Sound Familiar? 1
  • Does This Sound Familiar? 2
  • Does This Sound Familiar? 3
  • Does This Sound Familiar? 4
  • Does This Sound Familiar? 5
  • Does This Sound Familiar? 6
  • Getting There
  • The Enabling Prerequisite
  • Summary and Conclusion
• AutoCAD LT
  • Press Release
    • Key AutoCAD LT Features and Benefits
    • Pricing, Availability and Distribution
    • System Requirements
    • Company Information
  • Midcourse Corrections
  • AutoCAD LT Questions and Answers
• Creation/Evolution
• Ten Years After
• Before Autodesk
  • Basic Development Strategy
  • Details--The 68000 Node Board
  • Details--Software Conversion Plans
  • Background--Why not the 9995/99000?
  • Background--Why not the Z8001?
  • Details--What about the Z8000 software?
  • Details--What does this do to other projects?
  • Details--Whither the 9900 and its customer base?
  • Details--Marketing strategy
  • Details--Who pays and who gets what?
  • Details--Things to be resolved
• The View from Sweden
  • Sweden, Fall 1981
  • London, August 1982
  • Göteborg Sweden, November 1982
  • London, January 1983
  • Hannover Germany, Spring 1983
  • Visit to Autodesk, Inc., June 1983
  • Oslo Norway, June 1983
  • Göteborg Sweden, July 1983
  • Copenhagen Denmark, August 1983
  • Göteborg Sweden, December 1983
  • London, January 1984
  • Onsala Sweden, March 1984
  • Basel Switzerland, May 1984
  • Sausalito USA, June 1984
  • Onsala Sweden, August 1984
  • Onsala Sweden, September 1984
  • Sausalito USA, October 1984
  • Onsala Sweden, November 1984
  • Kungsbacka Sweden, December 1984
  • London, Spring 1985
  • Mölndal Sweden, April 1985
  • Mölndal Sweden, September 1985
  • Sausalito USA, June 1985
  • Mölndal Sweden, February 1986
  • Mölndal Sweden, March 1986
  • Chicago, June 1986
  • Mölndal Sweden, August 1986
  • Sausalito, May 1988
• Autodesk Trivia Quiz
• Financial Results
• Autodesk Stock Price History
• Product Release History
  • Autodesk Product Initial Shipment Dates
  • AutoCAD Version Release Dates
  • Kelvin's Holiday Hacks
  • AutoCAD Major Feature Release History
• About this Edition
• Contents
• Index