HP DraftMaster I

Hi, I thought I'd break in amongst all the big-brained stuff about part design and announce to the world that I've garbage-picked a Hewlett Packard DraftMaster I (7595A). It was easy to get home because it was only two streets over, and the wheels roll nicely. It went downhill really well, so I'm considering entering it in next year's Soap Box Derby. I'm also planning on building some shelves into it, to justify its space requirements. The machine DOES work. I plugged it into my Amiga, and managed to get it to draw a bicycle from an old PD CAD package off a magazine disk. It keeps chewing on the flimsy paper I've got, though. It has an HPIB port on it, so I'll have to write a HPGL driver for my PET one of these days. ;) Anyone know how old this thing is? HP's web site lists "DraftMaster" as one of their trademarks, but I couldn't find much else out about it. I used to work as a CAD operator at one of the big engineering firms in downtown Montreal, so this is a cool find. -- Doug Spence Hrothgar's Cool Old Junk Page: hrothgar(a)total.net http://www.total.net/~hrothgar/museum/