early mac's :

in 1984 there (Belgium) was a demonstration of the Lisa with a CAD application, 2D and 3D in separated modules (Radar CH - later ArchiCad)

but the combination computer, application, miniplotter wasn't affordable at all

bought in 1985 a secund hand 512k in 1987 Mac plus (text & spreadsheet), 1989 SE/30 (MiniCad & Ashlar Vellum, Ragtime, Photoshop, FileMaker)

1991 a fully loaded Quadra 700, two-page screen + high resolution RGB screen, Houston pen plotter DMP-62 A0, Archicad v3, stylewriter and laserprinter NT

now i have some Lisa 2"s and searching RadarCH .........

- the mac XL wasn't expensive -

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