Me and machines!

I can understand that Music. My husband can add up quicker in his head than those that use a calculator.

 

All his working life, from apprentice to retirement, my cousin was a technical illustrator for the MoD, working mainly on such things as user handbooks for all types of armed forces vehicles, equipment and FWGBs (Fings What Go Bang!). Of course, he'd been trained 'the old fashioned way' - drawing board, sheets of AO paper, pencil, slide rule etc., and when doing (for example) an exploded drawing of a tank gear box, knew from experience exactly where to put the first mark to ensure everything fitted onto the paper.

Then along came '... a load of long-haired, T-shirt wearing, hippy type graduates ..', who couldn't even set up a drawing board or use a slide rule, who talked about ISIS Schematic Capture, parameterisation of component values and homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-element parts. They'd hunch over their keyboards, mouse skidding around, tweaking and fiddling over their illustrations until (as in Music's example) the system crashed - leaving my cousin, quietly working away, inking-in his exploded drawing of an EJ200 turbojet engine with nothing more to worry about than whether his fineliner had sufficient ink to finish the job.