CAD — What is it All About?

Abstract

With the advent of the cheap, mass-produced silicon chip in the early 1970s the rising tide of information technology which had been steadily seeping into industry for the previous 20 years suddenly became a surging flood. One of the consequences of the dramatic growth in the availability and application of computers which followed has been the opening up of a `generation gap’ separating those who ride the fast-moving waves of `hi-tech’ from those whose feet remain planted upon the terra firma of the pre-silicon age.