30 Jun
2004
30 Jun
'04
4:21 p.m.
We had an HP 7200A plotter connected to a 9810 calculator
in our physics lab in college. I don't have any docs for
it, though, other than I can still picture it next to the
calculator -- this would have been early-mid 70s....
Bill
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.
Let me drop an email to my retired professor who managed
our computer center from the late 1960s through 2001.
Perhaps he has some info on it.
Ashley
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"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