On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:00:04 AM UTC-7, rickman wrote:

Yeah, PCB layout back then was supported by... I can't think of the name
of the company that made those pads and strips. They made them with
scale factors so you could more easily see what you were doing, 2x and
4x that I recall.

Bishop Graphics was the big outfit.

I can dimly recall doing some layouts of small items on MacPaint (it had
pixel-level draw, and copy/paste, so it was a lot like decal/tape composition).
There had to be an accurate copy camera or at least Xerox, to get the
artwork at 1:1