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I think I saw something like it at a trade show once,

back then a B&W TV was around 14" these CAD guys had CRT's that must have been 40" across, I had no idea such things even existed

oddly enough our drawing department a decade later still mostly drew things with a pen, Autocad was just one clunky PC that nobody seemed to know how to use

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A lot of companies probably did hand-draw up into the early 90s, or later. PCB CAD software really didn't come into it's own until probably the mid-late 90s.

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hand routing a PCB must have been quite a skill back then

funny how people now use space age cad software to make basically simple widgets on 3D printers, or plastic green yodas

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mostly yodas

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It was quite the skill, you can always tell a hand routed board because the traces are all rounded. I just tossed a boatload of early hand-route boards, and some of those things were incredibly complex.