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when you were lucky enough to get Ralph Smoley (remember
Smoley's) to be your teacher for a ICS course in engineering
Anon.
you have a set of railroad curves and a beam compass
Michael Pekarik
when someone says scale, you ask architectural or engineering?
Michael Pekarik
you remember filling your inking pen with an eyedropper, after
first adjusting the line width by turning a knurled wheel on the side of the pen and
"measuring" the width of the pen points
Dennis Staley
you look for the slide rule icon
Chris
your back has formed the perfect curve for the Leroy lettering
position
Chris
you remember when blueprints were blue and sepias were erased
with a chemical
Janet Hould
you consider the electric eraser to be a new-fangled gadget
invented by the Devil himself
Nick Bogut
when you remember that
before the plastic foam, everyone had a dark, speckle topped, rubber-band wrapped, roll of
frazzled toilet paper on the drafting table
Doug Rohn
You went to happy
hour on Friday nights with drafting tape stuck to the elbows of
your sleeves!
Dale Brooks
You remember that
the best drawing boards were made with balsa wood, to
"heal" after the thumb tacks.
William
Bambeck
When a
"file" was something that predates the sandpaper on a
stick. You find you have a fond collection of 8" flat files
in your drawer.
William
Bambeck
You still have a
large box of single edged razor blades (from before Exacto).
Scalpels were too expensive.
William
Bambeck
You find that the
"new" erasing shields now had a row of holes.
Erase in them over a line and you had a nice, evenly spaced,
dashed line. Wow! Why hadn't someone thought of that
before?
William
Bambeck
You know what an
Adjustable Triangle is.
K. G. Farral
You find that your
"new" erasing machine seems pretty ineffective on CAD.
Plus, it gets erasings all through the keyboard. Now you use
it only for cleaning electronic contacts. (Whiteout doesn't
seem to fare any better on the screen.)
William
Bambeck
You know what a
Parallel Guide is and how to use it with a set of Triangles.
This collection of memories developed spontaneously over
period of time in a CAD newsgroup early in 1997 under the subject of "Old CAD
Drafters". As technology continues to accelerate with no rest in sight, it seemed
like a good idea to rescue this collection from being lost forever. This collection of memories developed spontaneously over
period of time in a CAD newsgroup early in 1997 under the subject of "Old CAD
Drafters". As technology continues to accelerate with no rest in sight, it seemed
like a good idea to rescue this collection from being lost forever.
If you have any other drafting-related reminders of the
passage of time, feel free to address them to the webmaster.
We'll be glad to add them to the list.
Thanks to the people who continue to contribute
to this list.
