re: Any old school drafting / designers in here?

I started manually drafting for an engineering firm in ~1996 during high school. I didn't know it at the time, but it was already old technology in the late 90s. The engineering firm's owner was ooooold school, hated computers, and was a tight wad. In fact, the "drafting" software he did first was AutoSketch... not even AutoCAD. AutoSketch was SLIGHTLY more advanced than MSPaint.

In some weird coincidence, my 2nd job, right out of high school, was because I passed an entry exam/interview that required manually drafting a plot plan. They too used mix of manual drafting and CAD.

Some things I miss:
- smelling like ammonia after hours of manning the blueline machine (not!)
- running a two-bar polar planimeter to find areas of complex shapes quicker than someone in AutoCAD
- using French curves to take something from boring to sexy
- using a Le Roi or "Leroy" lettering guide for stuff like maps when even the best hand written block lettering guy couldnt do it. (This was only for large lettering.)

I have not met anyone else under the age of 40 that has done this stuff. I'd like to think there will probably be some sort of nostalgic artistic renaissance that would revive manual drafting in some niche way to produce a work of art. The same way with calligraphy and stuff on Etsy.