pen plotters?

[Dave McGuire]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Dave McGuire 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.

   Gads, pardon my crappy grammar.  I was trying to say "I do that a  
lot". :)

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL