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Oh my!! I had one of them templates.

Yeah the diamond is so tiny

You are making me miss Ramco forms. :(

Major flashback happening right now...

Yup. Had one of those. Got paid to use it ✔️

That is a particularly cool stencil tho. Mum had one of those for her OU course when I was little. I think I used it as much as her😂

I think I only knew how to read them back then because I saw them sometimes accompanying the source code in the computer magazines that I avidly consumed, as a child. (I was always doomed to go into Computer Science.)

I STILL flowchart my programs. IMHO, it is the only way to really define the program flow BEFORE you attempt architecture.

I did have to freehand a lot of state machines and data graphs and whatnot, though.

Got mine from WHSmith. Handily with ruler markings.. in inches.

My first programming job was Turbo Pascal. Fond memories.

Oh, I see. Thank you for letting me know.

Good times (but has to be green).

I had a green one for flow diagrams and another for logic symbols. I remember they smelt rather odd.

Unearthed my chemistry stencil recently but have since lost it again.

Shame, it's a great product.

Looks good. If only I had a need for it now I'm retired 😂

I'm pretty sure I have one somewhere!

I suspect I had that one too - a key component of my A level Computer Science course :)

OMG I had one of those!

I loved making flow charts.

For me, Structured Programming changed my dev paradigm.

I still use them for processes but in Visio rather than on paper

This is the one I had but never used complete with its plastic bag case. The student union shop sold them, University of Huddersfield 1990.

I have one, not helix, and unused. Our Uni lecturer in Computing for Electronic Engineering despised them. We used step-wise refinement and Yourdon Case Tools instead.

This takes me back and I mean WAY back. Made me smile though.

Damn, I used to have one of those.

Yeah we could take those into exams in the UK when I took my O and A levels, so up to the late 80s.

Yup, got that one. Kept it in a letter holder with this baby!

Haven’t thought about one of those things in ages! 👴🏻

Love this!

Oh that’s cool. Terrifying but cool.

We have indeed! I was mucking around with assembly language on micros at home at the same time.

Must have

Ahh, love these things…😃

Dammit, now I want one!

I went through 3 or 4 of these at college. When I was doing diagrams for my college final year project, I broke a couple - one in anger, one I stepped on. Drew dozens of SSADM diagrams which is a part of my life I'll never get back.

I had my mom's

Still have the one I used in the 70's. Great souvenir.

I don’t know who Angie is, I inherited this

ooh I believe I had one of those, I doubt I still do though... Probably was part of my Computer Club membership as a kid or something.

Gods I love me a well made systems diagram, I gotta get me one of these for my notepad

My college bookstore had IBM's flowchart template. I still have it somewhere.

Mine is green.

When I was a kid, my parents gave me one of those to use for drawing. One of the best toys I ever had.

Got one in my office desk drawer, yup!

Found mine about 2 months ago ...along with drafting tools, rulers and templates and angles. Only missing the T-Square.

Looks like the one in my old stuff bin.

Microsoft Visio is my fav

Used one of those back in the day.

Ah graph paper. Used to design a lot of my graphics on that. I still sketch out ideas in a notepad. Seems more fluid somehow.

DID use tubes, but only hardwired Analog Computers.

Sorry, again I just noticed it was a reply to my original post...

Sorry, that "Not" should be "Now"...

This brings back memories! I used to have one with the same layout but in green as a kid. Made entire cities with it!!

Oh man! I remember those! I still have mine somewhere. When I was mentoring NCGs/Undergrads, I used to get funny looks when I pulled my stencils out. And this was in the early 00's.

That’s for sure. It certainly helped me make my point a bit clearer in the blog post I’m writing.

Haven't see one of those in a while! It would be difficult to form one now with the AI processing box symbol so topologically complex (kind of a mashup of Homer Simpson in impossible yoga position resembling a Möbius strip).

Oh wow, I forgot these existed. I enjoyed tracing with these as a kid

I used this in both high school and at university! Thanks for the memory. 😊

My dad (an Electrical Engineer) had this flowchart template. I remember using it.

Bought mine from the university bookstore.

Remember having one of those

That takes me back to the early 80s

I find that draw.io sucks. Even at FREE, it costs more than I want to pay.

It's not authentic until it has some crumpled pencil shavings clinging to it from the bottom of your backpack

Damn. I remember those in college...