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Anyone recognize the apparatus this woman is using?
I suspect she's at a drafting table, and this is some sort of digitizer based on the corded puck she has in her right hand.
edit: She is doing PCB design work, and timeframe is 1983.
Okay, I'm wondering if the control panel is actually for a scribe unit.
These were made by Mutoh and designed to attach to drafting table arms...
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Okay, I'm wondering if the control panel is actually for a scribe unit.
These were made by Mutoh and designed to attach to drafting table arms...
Only issue is that I'm going through the catalog and none of the LCDs match, the ones from the early 80's are all too small.
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Okay, I'm wondering if the control panel is actually for a scribe unit.
These were made by Mutoh and designed to attach to drafting table arms...
@gloriouscow I think I’ve seen these, used for lettering on draft plot?
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Only issue is that I'm going through the catalog and none of the LCDs match, the ones from the early 80's are all too small.
looks like they were made by rOtring as well
https://www.reddit.com/r/rOtring/comments/yhfcod/a_few_generations_of_ncscriber_units/
i love learning this shit. every door of our history leads to unexpected places
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@gloriouscow I think I’ve seen these, used for lettering on draft plot?
@peterrenshaw yeah! See one in action:
youtu.be/NUR3vtlyZNo?t=28
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@peterrenshaw yeah! See one in action:
youtu.be/NUR3vtlyZNo?t=28
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@gloriouscow Laying out the components and traces for the board would still be described as "producing artwork". I don't know when CAD fully displaced tape+ink, but in 1984 I think it's plausible manual drafting still in use.
The Internet Archive has a copy of Darryl Lindsey's PCB design book from 1982. I can only see the TOC but it describes both manual and then-new CAD techniques. It might have descriptions or photos of equipment you could match to the photo you have.
@hattifattener i hope she didn't actually tape out the PCB because she seems like a nice lady and I would hate to have said all those bad things about her
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Anyone recognize the apparatus this woman is using?
I suspect she's at a drafting table, and this is some sort of digitizer based on the corded puck she has in her right hand.
edit: She is doing PCB design work, and timeframe is 1983.
@gloriouscow Boosted for my tiny ass reach. I want to know too dammit!
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It may not be a digitizer - closest i've gotten is this Nestler Florett digital drafting machine. You can see this is a more modern version, but it shows that such things did have control boxes with an LCD and controls on them.
curse you tiny promising contextless jpeg!!
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curse you tiny promising contextless jpeg!!
@gloriouscow What is the chance it is just a calculator?
Drafting requires a lot of precise measurements, so I could see being able to calculate, say a 50m span with 3 x 0.75m columns, spaced evenly (it is around 12m openings, but not quite 12m)
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@gloriouscow What is the chance it is just a calculator?
Drafting requires a lot of precise measurements, so I could see being able to calculate, say a 50m span with 3 x 0.75m columns, spaced evenly (it is around 12m openings, but not quite 12m)
@SnyperWolf it could be, would be a rather bigass calculator.
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@SnyperWolf it could be, would be a rather bigass calculator.
@SnyperWolf watch that rectangular thing not be a screen at all. The brain fills in a lot of details...
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@gloriouscow What is the chance it is just a calculator?
Drafting requires a lot of precise measurements, so I could see being able to calculate, say a 50m span with 3 x 0.75m columns, spaced evenly (it is around 12m openings, but not quite 12m)
@gloriouscow Or, I guess in terms of PCB design, 8 wire bus width running between two chips?
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@SnyperWolf it could be, would be a rather bigass calculator.
@gloriouscow Like the calculators from the 70s?
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@gloriouscow Like the calculators from the 70s?
@SnyperWolf this is from 1971. I can't find any examples of anything in that form factor
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@gloriouscow Laying out the components and traces for the board would still be described as "producing artwork". I don't know when CAD fully displaced tape+ink, but in 1984 I think it's plausible manual drafting still in use.
The Internet Archive has a copy of Darryl Lindsey's PCB design book from 1982. I can only see the TOC but it describes both manual and then-new CAD techniques. It might have descriptions or photos of equipment you could match to the photo you have.
@hattifattener checked out the book - super cool! didn't see any hits but i definitely need a copy of this for my library
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