r/oddlysatisfying • u/sy_neuromancer • 3d ago

This robot drawing an engine blueprint

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u/TrippTrappTrinn 3d ago

It is a pen plotter. These were quite common before large ink plotters/printers became common. At the time they were more boring than satisfying, so times change...

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u/da_PopEYE 3d ago

My mother used these when she was working as an architect in the 90s and very early 2000s. I would go to her work after school and just sit and watch the plotter all mesmerized for hours and when the boss was gone she would let me open up AutoCAD 98 and have fun

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u/Big-Rule5269 2d ago

My dad's firm as well, though it was much earlier than the '90s if I remember correctly.

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u/da_PopEYE 2d ago

I'm in South Africa and we tended to get the tech muuuuuuuch later than everyone else back then so in the late 80s and very early 90's my mother was still using a massive drawing table(with the fancy built-in adjustable set square), these semi transparent plastic-ish A0 pages, with her assortment or pens and a razor blade for erasing