22 Dec
2015
22 Dec
'15
11:31 p.m.
I had the large ibm calcomp plotter if big wide one we have the same
... it is in the hp display case at smecc museum
there was a fortran graphics text book we had adn I had gotten with a HP
3000 and it had a interface board ( parallel interface?? too many
years)
I made it plot squares etc .. as I remember the hp intrinsics may
have had some support for this..
once I did that i put it aside and went back to playing with the HP
multi-pen HP plotters we sold back them at Computer Exchange Inc.
In a message dated 12/22/2015 3:22:01 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
steven at malikoff.com writes:
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Subject: XY11 Manual, Anyone?
From: "Mattis Lind" <mattislind at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, December 23, 2015 2:53 am
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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I have in mind to connect a machine to an IBM 1627
(CALCOMP 565) plotter
and then the XY11 which just arrive would fit nicely, I think.
But I cannot seem to find any manual for the XY11. Anyone know of a
manual?
The board is rather simple so it should be possible to work out the
details
on how to interface it by hand but it would be nice
to have the proper
manual.
Then for software I found a diagnostic, XXYAD0 that supposedly should
draw
a square and a rectangle.
Anyone know of other drawing software that uses the XY11
/Mattis
The book 'The Minicomputer in the Laboratory' by James W Cooper covers
using an
X-Y plotter with an 11/05, and has assembly listings and a whole bunch of
related
stuff about scientific plotting. Also a lot of info on using the LPS-11
too.
There are plenty of copies out there and quite cheap too. It's an
excellent book
and could be of use to you.
Steve.