No idea but...Hand drawn in 1996! George Gomez stated that CAD software first showed up at B\W in 1993.
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Quoted from ForceFlow:A good drafter could get a drawing done pretty quickly. I'm guessing that old school designers near retirement who had been drafting by hand for decades probably didn't bother to make the switch. If it really needed to be digital, one of the younger designers with computer training probably could have just redrawn it digitally.
Keep in mind that in the early/mid 90s, it was very early days for GUIs. Windows 3.1 was only just released in summer of 1993. Prior to that, CAD was based in DOS. Here's an example of what that looked like:And in windows 3.1:
Today:
I can remember seeing Windows For Workgroups in 1990\1991-ish. SolidWorks, my employer, first released its Windows desktop CAD package in 1993.
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