Circa mid-late 1970s.

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Bill

Nice. But is there a Linux version available?

(I too had a template like that. And I used to keep lots of paper on hand, including graph paper. Also pencils, plain and in color. And -- for me, a necessity -- lots of erasers!)

-- Jeff

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In 1988 my 65C02 got six new registers and 44 new full-speed instructions!
https://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/ ... mmary.html

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

I, too, still do my schematics by hand. But I'll either scribble in pencil or draw a PNG using Paint Shop Pro. I've had a lot of practice with the latter, and have learned some tricks that substantially accelerate the process. (And of course I built up a reference file with often-used shapes which I can cut and paste.)

Like Garth, I'm not comfortable with the rules and styles of CAD drawings (although they do have their place). When I want a drawing to communicate with a human (not a machine) then I want complete control of what the drawing says, and how. Forumites have seen many examples of my style.

-- Jeff

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In 1988 my 65C02 got six new registers and 44 new full-speed instructions!
https://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/ ... mmary.html

I still do some simple schematics by hand, but usually for small stuff I build up with P-P wiring. If they turn out to be useful they will get transcribed to DipTrace to be included in a larger project.

I tried many free and/or affordable EDAs over the years and landed on DipTrace. It's full of warts, but suits me a bit better than any of the others. I'm sure something like Altium could be better, but it out of my hobbyist price range.

I have not used the template in about 25 years or so.

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When I joined my first and only company I inherited a drafting table with one EDA: an electric eraser! Electric eraser + indestructible Vellum paper, Wow, that was a game changer!
Bill

OK I chuckled at this one.

PDP-11 only I'm afraid.

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I've also had numerous such drawing aids way back when... mostly classic schematic stuff, then later some logic templates.

However, I recently found an old gem.... a flowcharting drawing aid:



Pretty sure I got this shortly after I joined the company, which was also a very long time ago

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Regards, KM
https://github.com/floobydust

Ahh.. the original OOP!

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