(While Bill was at the lab, he also spoke with the head of microcomputer development at Intel about the same idea.) By 1975, Bill and Paul had formed a company, MicroProse, to develop a computer game to show off the capabilities of their new inexpensive PC (the Apple II) on a huge monitor.
Bill began talking to Microsoft founder Paul Allen about his idea of developing a system for the PC that would run his BASIC language. In 1974, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, visited the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) and, while touring the facility, was very impressed with the capabilities of the new, inexpensive, portable and powerful microcomputers being used there. In the early 1970s, the PC was still an exotic and expensive machine-enabling the maximum flexibility with minimal time and cost.
If the AutoCAD logo were used today, the AutoCAD name would be preceded by CAD (computer-aided design), CADD (computer-aided design and drafting) and/or CADDY (computer-aided drafting and design). In the early 1970s, AutoCAD was introduced.
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