The recording, checking, and printing of logic diagrams

In the design and development of today's complex computers, the ratio of routine and repetitive work to creative engineering is getting larger and larger. The factors which make the development of a large scale computer a lengthy and time-consuming process are more and more the sheer mass of detail work that must be performed; the drafting and checking of logic diagrams; the assignment of circuit components to printed cards, of printed cards to panels, of panels to gates and frames; the routing of signal and power wiring between the thousands of circuit components; the production of the many pieces of paper needed to convey to manufacturing, production control, cost engineering, maintenance engineering, etc., the details they require to do their work. There would be every reason to question the feasibility of embarking on a new development project were it not for the fact that a considerable number of these detail tasks are practical computer applications.