Disk Drive Documents

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Jun 8 19:53:36 1999

I ran into this from time to time myself, and, in the case where company
politics prevented me from drawing my own, I drew dashed lines around the
structural blocks in my diagram. This made the draftsment less prone to
rearrange my work. Dashed lines are something many draftsmen really hate.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 5:55 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Disk Drive Documents


>ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, I've seen schematics that have been redrawn by
>> draftsmen. They have rearanged the components to make the diagram look
>> balanced on the page. The result is that the logical structure of the
>> schematic has gone. Figuring out how it works is next-to-impossible.
>>
>
>Hi
> I used to hate that when the draftsmen would take my
>carefully organized schematics and crunch them down into
>an unreadable mess. I had them as logical blocks
>because that is the way I thought about the designs.
>When the techs on the bench were trouble shooting,
>they'd always come to me for the original drawings.
>I tried to fight it once but the boss said it
>was wasting too much paper ( let me see, a $60K system
>couldn't afford $0.20 more paper?? ).
>Dwight
>
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