[keithnz]

I did technical drawing at school (pre computers... pencil, paper, t-square, compass, etc). It really was quite fun constructing things with pencil and paper. I think one good thing about it is you'd end up with a very intimate understanding of the thing you are designing because every tiny aspect took you mental effort to construct. I also think it really helped me understand projecting 3d into 2d, though on my old Atari 800XL, that was tricky and I dreamed of the day of high resolution screens...like 800x600 and 256 colors :)