Silver Mylar in computer keyboards (question)

Hypatia's Protege said:

My projects were wholly avocational (and, hence, not time critical) then too 'twas the early 1990's when services such as you describe were both scarce and rather difficult to 'find'...

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That's about the time frame that I was making most of my boards -- late 1980's up through about 1998. At first I used AutoCAD to layout the artwork (since as a student it was free -- and this is back when it came on two 5.25" 360kB floppies). In about the 1994 time frame I graduated to Protel (version 2.something). I tried the autorouter a couple of times and was completely disappointed with it. Every board I have ever laid out has been 100% hand routed, including some boards I did for Boeing that had 3000 pads. Takes a while, but you know that what you get is what you meant to get.

I've tried other PBC layout tools since and I still keep coming back to that old Protel v2 software that was written for Win 3.1. All the newer stuff just insists on doing my thinking for me.