24 Jul
2004
24 Jul
'04
4:18 p.m.
Yes, Dan, this is EXACTLY the plotter that we used back in the 1970s.
Thanks for posting the pictures.
If anyone ever finds one of these, I would be interested in getting
it from them. So far this thing seems to be quite elusive.
Ashley
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Dan Veeneman
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:51 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: HP 7200A plotter
Hello,
Sorry my response is so late...
At 11:26 PM 6/28/04, Ashley Carder wrote:
I'll see if I can get some further information on
this
plotter. Surely an HP plotter can't be this elusive!
My documentation does say HP 7200A.
I've scanned a couple pages from a 1970 HP catalog
and put them up at
http://www.decodesystems.com/hp7200a.html
I imagine this is the plotter Ashley has in mind.
Cheers,
Dan
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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:01 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: HP 7200A plotter
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:49:30 -0400
"Ashley Carder" <wacarder(a)usit.net> wrote:
Sorry, I don't have a picture of it.
I've found
reference to it
by Google-ing, but only a couple of references. I do
remember it.
It was flat, sat on a table, was maybe 14" x 14" (a
guess), and
had little pens that you mounted in the "drawing arm" or
whatever
you want to call it. I have a page of documentation on
how to
use it from our 1978 computer center "user's guide".
The only 72xx models that I am aware of are (ahem,
*were* :>) the 7225{A,B} and 7240/7245. But, the
724x was thermal so I assume that's not it. The
7225 matches your description, though -- ~14-15" square
desktop footprint... buttons across the front...
--don