
19 Vintage Pictures Showing How People Worked When There Was No AutoCAD
Modern technology made many professions obsolete - but that is the price of progress. However, some technologies actually made peoples' jobs easier. Up until 1982, drafters used to do all of their plans by hand - but then came AutoCAD. About 12 years later, it was already being used worldwide and made drawing plans by hand a thing of the past. Huge tables and many measuring tools were no longer required - all you needed was a computer.
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Modern technology made many professions obsolete - but that is the price of progress. However, some technologies actually made peoples' jobs easier. Up until 1982, drafters used to do all of their plans by hand - but then came AutoCAD. About 12 years later, it was already being used worldwide and made drawing plans by hand a thing of the past. Huge tables and many measuring tools were no longer required - all you needed was a computer.
Check out a collection of vintage pictures of drafters creating plans by hand in the gallery below!
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