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"City Bike" Hot New Category at Bicycle Industry Show
On Oct 2, 11:23 am, Paul O wrote:
wrote: On Oct 1, 5:16 pm, Paul O wrote: I miss my trusty old Staedtler-Mars electric eraser. I wonder where it is now? Well, I actually have one. NOS. Not sure about the brand, though. If you're _really_ interested, let me know. - Frank Krygowski Frank, Nostalgia can be a funny thing. I remember how well my old electric eraser worked. It did a quick, clean, and thorough job at erasing lines on mylar and vellum. But the overall activity for which it was designed to do was a PITA. A couple of years after I moved to the drawing board, my company purchased a bunch of PC workstations and a site license for an early DOS version of AutoCAD (AutoCAD 5?). Before long, all of my drafting tools were gathering dust in the bottom of a desk drawer and my drafting board became a big horizontal surface to hold print-outs, books, and catalogs. The simple truth was that preparing drawings with a CAD program was much easier, faster, and more accurate than doing it by hand. And I could erase hundreds of lines with an "E" command and a few mouse clicks. That job ended and I moved on. I still have some of my drafting tools but I never use them. And, I still use AutoCAD a fair amount (I'm up to release 2008 now). So I probably would never use my old Staedtler-Mars eraser even if I still had it. Thanks, but some things are better left in the past... Yep. I understand completely. Sometimes nostalgia isn't all it's cut out to be. Honestly, the real reason I have that electric eraser is that it (and a dozen clones) were being thrown out because CAD had made them obsolete. I thought: "Hmm. Electric motor, collet chuck - that might come in handy for _something_!" But it's languished in a drawer unused ever since. However, I note that for small, one-off drawings, I'm still faster drawing with pencil and paper than I am with AutoCAD or its competitors! - Frank Krygowski |
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