alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Same when I started my apprenticeship in new Zealand, in 1969. They
> were still hand drawn 10 years later and PCBs laid out with real tape,
> although I suspect by then any large company in the USA would have had
> CAD systems for both functions.

Hewlett Packard in New Jersey didn't when I started there in 1980.  I drew
schematics on D size vellum using pencil and eraser.  These were eventually
given to a board guy who would lay it out at 2.5x or 4x scale with
calibrated tape.  That would get photographed in transparency mode to make
the 1:1 mask films.

They were getting in and testing a CAD system when I left there in 1982.

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