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... -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
