14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
7:17 a.m.
From: djg at pdp8.net
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.
Hi
There was usually an interface box between the computer and the plotter
that translated some vector language to plotter actions.
The 30" pin feed paper the plotter want also
doesn't seem to be available
any more.
You generally didn't plot on the part with the pin holes, you'd tape
a sheet on that to plot on. At least that is the way we used the plotter
we had. We did 4X plots of PCB on clear film.
Dwight
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.
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