Did you know? You can tell the approximate era of a circuit board by how the traces are laid out and spaced. I’d say this is mid to late 70s. Hand-traced, with beautiful curves! #Retrocomputing

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@thomasfuchs Hand-drawn circuit boards are a lost art.

Then again, I doubt you could get multi-gigahertz performance out of anything hand-drawn, so I guess it wouldn't even work for modern circuits, even if you did want to put in the time.

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