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With the 20th anniversary of the IBM PC fast approaching, the promise of a paperless office keeps receding. Every architect with a computer and a printer or plotter understands why. Viewing, reviewing, and checking CAD drawings demands check plots or half-size check prints, because computer monitor displays are too small and blurry for inspecting design work in progress. Attorneys recommend keeping hard copies of records whenever transmitting drawings electronically. Computers make generating paperwork such as memos, reports, minutes, and calendars so much easier that these documents, too, have proliferated.
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