Punch Cards.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:20 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I still have my flow chart diagramming stencil in a
> drawer if I got ambitious enough to go looking for it. It's a plastic
> ruler with cut-outs for all of the different shapes (boxes, curves,
> etc.) that you put on a flow chart diagram which you can trace off of
> the ruler instead of having to draw them by hand.  

I've still got one of them, too.  I don't know what they made it out of,
but even after twenty years it still pongs like it was dipped in vomit.
Thanks to that, I rarely used it.  And it was generally quicker just to
sketch by had without fiddling with the stencil.

> I never was much of an artist.... 

Me either, but I still draw most of my things free hand (generally
electronics, these days), and put up with the wavy lines and
non-grid-aligned layout.  Ahh the fun of making circuit boards that ICs
had to go into, hand drawn using a Dalo pen, with the holes drilled
using a hand drill...   Hmm, it doesn't quite fit...

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