What the hell did bankers do before PowerPoint?

Title says it all. WTF did bankers do to produce CIMs and shit before PowerPoint? Or even microsoft office in general? I'm talking like IB in the 80's. I assume no model building either cuz Excel wasn't released til what 1990?

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