24 May
2000
24 May
'00
8:01 a.m.
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote:
At my school (UC Santa Barbara, 1983-1987) a few of
the "engineering" and
"research" VAXen had Versatec printers. (They were considered too
expensive for normal undergraduate use).
Versatec must have made better ones later... when I was at McDonnell-Douglas
they had a Versatec 4-color electrostatic plotter. It was a raster
device... matter of fact there was an external rasterizer box which
would convert vector plot data into the format needed by the plotter.
They only did boring electrical diagrams without a lot of color but
I used to wonder if it could do full pictures, seems like it could've.
It was huge, about a 4 or 5 foot cube, and used a roll of paper the
same width as d-size plotter paper.
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