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    Re: Plotting tools
    From: Greg R_
    Date: 2008 May 29, 20:56 -0700

    --- Lu Abel  wrote:
    
    > So there's likely also a late 1950s edition somewhere in a box of
    > books.
    
    Whew, you've got a few years on me - glad to know I'm not the "oldest
    dog" on the list...  ;-)
    
    > In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical
    > Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts:
    
    The irony of the Amazon listing is that the $165.94 asking price would
    buy a pretty decent CAD program...  ;-)
    
    --
    GregR
    
    
    
    
    
    > French was sort of the Bowditch of the drafting world.
    >
    > Just pulled two copies from my bookshelf.   One dated 1924 and once
    > owned by my long-dead father-in-law who spent 49 years working as a
    > draftsman for General Electric before retiring in 1962.   The other
    > is
    > the 1937 edition and was owned by my father.   I'm pretty sure I had
    > to
    > buy my own copy, either for the four years of drafting I took at a
    > technical high school or for my freshman drafting class on my way to
    > becoming an engineer.   So there's likely also a late 1950s edition
    > somewhere in a box of books.
    >
    > In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical
    > Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts:
    >
    >
    http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Drawing-Graphic-Technology-Thomas/dp/0070223475
    >
    > Lu
    >
    > Greg R. wrote:
    > > --- Lu Abel  wrote:
    > >
    > > Don't recognize that title offhand, but wasn't he the one who
    > invented
    > > the French Curve (hopefully that remark doesn't date me even
    > further...
    > > ;-))?
    > >
    > > Woof!
    > >
    > > --
    > > GregR
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >> Hey, I actually had a question that drove me to dig out my copy of
    >
    > >> French's "Engineering Drawing"   You old dogs remember that
    > classic
    > >> text?   Think I've actually got two copies from various vintages.
    >
    > >>
    > >> Lu Abel
    > >>
    > >> Greg R. wrote:
    > >>
    > >>> --- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>> I resemble that remark!  Sadly, when I took the class that
    > covered
    > >>>>
    > >>>> drafting, I was in the very last class that did manual drafting.
    >
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>> Glad to know that at least a few of us actually know what that is
    > -
    > >>> much like CelNav it's really becoming a dying art these days.
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>> I have  never even  used a CAD program.  That was back in 1994.
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>> As one "old dog" to another, you really ought to try it sometime
    > >>> (personally, I'm doing a lot of stuff on a computer these days
    > that
    > >>>
    > >> was
    > >>
    > >>> done manually before - audio/video editing, CAD, etc. - and of
    > >>>
    > >> course
    > >>
    > >>> CelNav), and really wouldn't want to go back to the "bad old
    > days"
    > >>> before computers. If the "instant gratification" lure doesn't get
    > >>>
    > >> you
    > >>
    > >>> (and the ability to play "what if" in real time), the "Undo"
    > >>>
    > >> function
    > >>
    > >>> just might do it.  :-)
    > >>>
    > >>> --
    > >>> GregR
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>> And for those on the list who might be too young to know what
    > that
    > >>>>
    > >>>> is,
    > >>>> that was one way that we did mechanical drawing back in the bad
    > >>>>
    > >> old
    > >>
    > >>>> days before CAD programs. :-)
    > >>>>
    > >>>> --
    > >>>> GregR
    > >>>>
    > >>>> Greg,
    > >>>>
    > >>>> I resemble that remark!  Sadly, when I took the class that
    > covered
    > >>>>
    > >>>> drafting,
    > >>>> I was in the very last class that did manual drafting.  I have
    > >>>>
    > >> never
    > >>
    > >>>> even
    > >>>> used a CAD program.  That was back in 1994.
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>> **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch
    > >>>>
    > >> "Cooking
    > >>
    > >>>> with
    > >>>> Tyler Florence" on AOL Food.
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >
    >
    (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)
    > >
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >
    > >
    > > >
    > >
    >
    > >
    >
    
    
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