11 Dec
2008
11 Dec
'08
11:05 a.m.
Pencil and paper is still king for a lot of folks.
Sketching out
I almost always carry a notebook. Not a notebook computer, but a good old
book of paper. I find it more use than any electronic replacement
schematics or code is still easiest scribbled on paper
for me. I
Yep. As I've said many times before, I'll use a CAD system when it
actually aids me in designing something (as opposed to hindering me,
which most seem to). Until then, I'll use a 'Paper Aided Dasign' system,
more commonly called a 'PAD' (of paper :-)). I design by sketching out
scheamticvs and doing he calculations on a pocket calculator (and beofre
anyone askes, I have scheamtics, machine language instruction set, and
ROM listings for said calculator, OK :-))
know a number of music composers who wouldn't be
caught dead using
anything but manuscript paper and a pencil.
Likewise, there's nothing quite like a printed databook. To those
Indeed...
-tony