pen plotters?

[Dave McGuire]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
>> As difficult as it is to find information on vintage terminals, its
>> even harder to find information on vintage pen plotters.  A pen
>> plotter was about the only form of graphical output you could expect
>> to see on a vintage graphics system as film recorders were very
>> expensive.
>
> That reminds me with Dave talking about the HP 54201D scope, one of
> the cool things you would do with that is hook it up to an HP GPIB
> plotter and it could draw the screen and captured waveforms on the
> plotter.  I've done that, but I forget which model HP plotter I have.

   I have an HP 54111D digitizing oscilloscope, and I do exactly that  
with some frequency to my HP 7550A.  Lately I've become enamored with  
talking to the scope via Agilent VEE, as that works pretty nicely,  
but it's slow as pissing tar when running on a "real" x86 box...it's  
even worse under an emulator.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL