5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
1:10 a.m.
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>>>> That machine also had a very nice
Calcomp plotter. I miss plotters.
Me too. I admit though, I really like the thing that made them
obsolete: cheap memory.
But nothing beats a pen flinging around a blank sheet of paper
making a drawing. Especially analog plotters driven from DACs!
At American Used Computer in the late 1970's they had a truly huge
vertical plotter, everyone ogled it, but no one bought it...