Selling Calcomp 565 plotter

On Sunday 07 February 2010, Philipp Hachtmann wrote: There's a small dent, less than 1mm deep. The shadows in the photo make it look bigger than it actually is. Some Bondo car-body filler would probably take care of that in short order. Oh noes! It's old, what do you expect? I've found that spending time on cleaning things I put on ebay (beyond wipe the dust off with a rag) rarely helps the sale price. If you don't have the cables, just replace the connector with something else. If you don't want to do that, then just appreciate the fact that you have a computer artifact from over 30 years ago. I find it amusing when people on here say "oh, that's not rare, it so trivial to find them." In 99% of cases, it's not. Just because you might have a stash of something doesn't mean that there's any more available from anywhere else. It takes real work, luck, and/or a lot of cash to find a lot of computer stuff that's more than 20 years old. Shrug. I can't help there. I got the plotter in mostly the same condition as what I'm selling it in (they're cleaner now than before). You can blame probably 30 years of being stored on missing parts and dirt. There's a few feet of paper on it still, but it's not much. I'm sure that if you were sufficiently motivated, you could punch holes into some roll of paper that's commonly available, if you can't still buy the same paper that this uses. Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org