Tools of yesteryear
An art director friend must have been cleaning out drawers, as he sent a picture of the following artifact. I wonder how many of you know what it is?
Clue: He says that it was much slimmer than an iPad, it was being given away for free 25 years ago and he never had any problems with its software.
Clue: He says that it was much slimmer than an iPad, it was being given away for free 25 years ago and he never had any problems with its software.
posted by D. B. Scott at
1:40 pm
5 Comments:
Is it an eye chart?
Kidding. I assume it's for measuring text sizes? Back before computers did that for us? (The dark ages were a scary time, no?)
Hilarious.
Boy do I feel old all of a sudden.
Well the thing (whatever it is) has a URL on it, so it couldn’t be more than 20 or so years old, likely much less.
It’s a pica rule. I bought one for £2 in London a while back.
Good point about the URL, which really started about 1992. Which, in a sense, makes it even more amusing that such an ubiquitous tool has become a buggy whip in such a relatively short time.
I have a little acetate overlay that I used in the 1970s which helped count the number of words on a typewritten page, in pica or elite. Can you imagine?
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