hunterjwizzard
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Long ago in the forgotten time known only as "highschool", departed friends and I often exchanged forbidden burnt disks containing the latest in cutting-edge software of which we were most certainly not supposed to have. I will speak no more on this specific count, save to say that it bridges into my question.
In this now-lost epoch, in whispered tones, a friend once spoke to me of a version of AutoCAD owned by his father, which included not only a hardware dongle but also a 5.25" drive-bay device, which I believe contained a standard 3.5" drive in a mobile rack but was branded by AutoDesk. This was supposed to be on of the highly expensive professional-grade versions of AutoCAD, very much un-like the cheap student versions available to us in that stygian realms of that one semester drafting class.
I wish to know more of this ancient, forgotten software version known only to government contractors, and people with too much money.
(In case anyone is curious: yes, I did spend the weekend listening to an collected works of HP Lovecraft audiobook while working on old computers)
In this now-lost epoch, in whispered tones, a friend once spoke to me of a version of AutoCAD owned by his father, which included not only a hardware dongle but also a 5.25" drive-bay device, which I believe contained a standard 3.5" drive in a mobile rack but was branded by AutoDesk. This was supposed to be on of the highly expensive professional-grade versions of AutoCAD, very much un-like the cheap student versions available to us in that stygian realms of that one semester drafting class.
I wish to know more of this ancient, forgotten software version known only to government contractors, and people with too much money.
(In case anyone is curious: yes, I did spend the weekend listening to an collected works of HP Lovecraft audiobook while working on old computers)