Do you have any job skills that are now obsolete?

[Emrys]

336. One of my early office jobs included walking literal blueprints produced by our drawing office to a photo service

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across town so they could produce bromides, then collect the blueprints and bromides when they'd finished with them. The bromides were supposedly camera-ready for incorporating into publications, though we sometimes had to have them amended too.

For the same firm, I had to proofread bromides of electronic circuit diagrams that were supposed to be translated from the US standard to UK standard, as they involved modems etc. that were starting to find widespread application. For some reason, I could do that accurately and easily, but it used to drive our tracers up the wall as some of them just couldn't get the hang of it. You could mark them up using a special soft blue chinagraph pencil that was invisible to the camera at the end of the process, then the tracers would ink in the changes.