pen plotters?

[Erik Baigar]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 djg at pdp8.net wrote:

> I have a Calcomp 563 drum plotter on my 8/E.  
> http://www.pdp8.net/563/563.shtml (need to make a better page now
> that I have it running. Showed it at the last VCF east)

> to demo but didn't find much.  Anybody know of some good ones?  The format

With my Calcomp 1038 I encountered the same problem since the
plotter language PCI/906 died out and I do not have got any
documentation about this. In reverse engineering I found 
out how to do the basic operations (gotoxy and pen up / pen 
down) and wrote a converter progaram. To get samples my
choice was to take the hp2xx utility which is available for
many platforms. With this you can convert HPGL to a simple 
gotoxy-style which is than easy to process. This saved a lot
of work on an own interpreter and you are able to plot 
most of the hpgl files...

By the way: Any documents about PCI906 ot it's successor 
PCI/907 out there?

   Best regards,

      Erik.