On 4/4/11 3:40 PM, Ian King wrote:
A few years ago I got a Calcomp 1043GT pen plotter
from a guy who had
paid $50 for it at a garage sale, then realized it wouldn't work with
anything he had. He finally got tired of it sitting in his basement
and offered it to me - I bought him a beer. :-)
The most modern driver I ever found for it was for Windows 95. There
is a ROM cartridge that one can plug in that will teach it to speak
(ISTR) PCL, but I've never found one - anyone got one? So it talks a
proprietary protocol that's quite obscure. I may try to
reverse-engineer it one of these days if I'm ever really really
bored.... But it draws really nice (and really big) pictures, even
if I do have to drive it with a creaky old version of TurboCAD that
runs on Win95. -- Ian
I'd definitely reverse-engineer that, it sounds like a great device!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL