27 Sep
2007
27 Sep
'07
10:32 p.m.
Dear Sellam Ismail,
I have got a 1039 plotter which I got from a engineering
company years ago. They used it in the 90ies with DOS
based software and they had certain libraries (I think
it was fortran) from Calcomp to use the plotter. These
libraries contained commands for e.g. drawing mathematial
diagrams, characters and so on.
Maybe I somewhere have got the documentation (a few
pages) listing the commands which are implemented in
the library.
Is this the kind of stuff you are looking for? What
type of plotter do you have got? Has this one got a
digital interface (like e.g. PCI907 or PCI906)?
Do you have got any application software on your 1620?
Best regards,
Erik.
The IBM 1620 Restoration Team at the Computer History
Museum needs a copy
for a project they are working on to interface a CalComp plotter to the
1620.
If you've got a copy you can provide (all they need is a photocopy or
scan) please contact Dave Babcock <dave at kaleidosoft.com>.
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