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Originally Posted by IROC
For sure, we all yearn for the good old days. As much as I hate to admit it, I am one of the “gray beards” these days telling these young guys what it was like to do drawings “on the board” back in the day. With a pencil. We - all of us - did great things back then. I get a lump in my throat when I watch an old Shuttle launch video because I lived the grind of making that happen on a daily basis.
All of these companies were great and full of great people who did crap no one had ever done before. That’s just what we did every day.
And it was fun.
My hat is off to all you guys.  |
Heh heh... I still had my big green tilting drafting table sitting behind me in my double size cubicle the day I retired. None of my managers dared take it away. I was still doing revisions of what we called "board" drawings until the day I retired. The "younguns" didn't want to have anything to do with them, and there was really no point in trying to teach them. Their approach, even on minor revisions, was to simply redraw the whole damn thing in our CAD system of choice (CATIA V5 by then). I loved siting down at my drafting table and breaking out my "kit". I found it relaxing, like pulling on a pair of old slippers. The young "kids" would gather around me like the apes around the monolith in
2001, sometimes even daring to touch one of my triangles or, if really brave, one of my French curves...
I bet that table was gone shortly after I was.