On 25/02/2013 07:48, Claunch,Carl wrote:
Hi
I was recently given a Strobe 100 plotter, with an S-100 bus interface card, but no
information at all about the protocols or commands or other details needed to connect with
and use it. I have searched the usual places and cannot find any manuals or details. Does
anyone have a manual for the 100 (or the similar models 200 or 260), or even remember
enough to help me get this working. My requirements for it are very simple, pen R, L, F
and B, plus pen up and pen down are all I need to command it to do, always in single unit
steps. I am going to interface this to my 1130 replica as a replacement 1627 plotter
(small Calcomp device rebadged by IBM for 1620 and 1130 computers). The 1130 only needed
those few commands I listed above from its plotter.
Carl
Poking around on the net, in particular here:-
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n2/212_Print_about_printers.php
and here
http://www.cpm.z80.de/roche/DRGDOC.TXT
and here
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/convergent/manuals_b20/118…
(Page 135 onwards)
implies that the interface is RS232 and that it kind of understands a
subset of HPGL....
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