CADAM is a CAD

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design , also known as computer-aided design and drafting , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer...

 related product that was developed by Lockheed

Lockheed Corporation

The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...

. CADAM is/was software originally written for IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 mainframes

Mainframe computer

Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...

 and later ported to UNIX

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

 workstation

Workstation

A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems...

s. A variant of CADAM called Micro CADAM was also developed, which also ran on PCs under DOS.

• IBM agrees to sell CADAM to aerospace companies

• CADAM Release 18.3 Released.

• CADAM INC is formed as a subsidiary of Lockheed Corp.

• CADAM, Inc v. Adage, Inc.

• CADAM INC and SDRC
  SDRC
  SDRC was a leading company specializing in MCAE and PLM software.-History:...
  
   win massive GM C4 benchmark.

CADAM agrees to port Professional CADAM to Sun

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

, Apollo

Apollo Computer

Apollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s...

 and HP

• CADAM INC is sold to IBM. CADAM INC an IBM Company is formed.

• Microcadam is formed.
  • CADAM INC develops and enhances CADAM (mainframes) and Professional CADAM (workstations)
  • Microcadam develops Micro CADAM
• Professional CADAM ported to IBM RS/6000
  RS/6000
  RISC System/6000, or RS/6000 for short, is a family of RISC and UNIX based servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT computer platform in February 1990 and was the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based...
  
  . One of the first non-IBM applications for the workstation.

• Soules v. CADAM court case decision.http://online.ceb.com/CalCases/CA4/2CA4t390.htm

• IBM sells CADAM INC to Dassault Systèmes
  Dassault Systemes
  Dassault Systèmes S.A. is a leading company specializing in 3D and PLM software.Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling...
  
  . This entity is called "Dassault Systemes of America" (DSA)
  • DSA maintains mainframe CADAM and Professional CADAM
• Altium is created.
  • Altium supports Micro CADAM, P-CAD and IBM CAD

• An old version of Micro CADAM was made available via a free license for use on DOS PCs. Copies of this free version are still available on the internet.

• Microcadam becomes CSC/Microcadam

• Microcadam closes. Dassault Systèmes
  Dassault Systemes
  Dassault Systèmes S.A. is a leading company specializing in 3D and PLM software.Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling...
  
   assumes support for Microcadam software

• Protel takes the name Altium http://www.altium.com/company/about-altium/en/about-altium_home.cfm

External links

• CAD history
• MICROCADAM to Retire Helix Software