14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
10:32 p.m.
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.