14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
5:52 a.m.
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)
About as basic as can be. No command language here, it needs a pulse
from the computer for each .005 inch step. The 8/E
control card required
you to execute an instruction to generate each pulse. Plots
about 1.5
inches per second.
The 30" pin feed paper the plotter want also doesn't seem to be available
any more.
For VCF I did some searching online for some good pen plot files to use
to demo but didn't find much. Anybody know of some good ones? The format
isn't important since I can find/write a program to translate. I ended
up using the samples from tek2plot that I used to demo my 4010.