737-200? Does it even have a magenta line?
Maybe you're just condemning a dead pilot because of his age . . .
You are absolutely right, no magenta line in this aircraft. So how did he manage to crash? If you read the Tripoli and AIX treads, they are full of "todays pilots can't fly, we are children of the magenta, we have no flying skills, etc, etc.
This was a steam gage aircraft, but still they flew it into the ground.
Accidents happened long before EFIS showed up, and even before the auto pilot was invented.