Found this interesting overview of the start of commercial 3D graphics: http://www.asterius.com/atari/index
Makes for interesting reading 
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Oh man! This is my 3D childhood! I used Cyber-Cad and Cyber Studio to make all sorts of animations when I was in college. (Lots of Star Trek.)
Sadly, I haven’t done a fraction of that work in Blender (or anything else). Gotta work on that.