pen plotters? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Feb 2007

On 15 Feb, 2007, at 08:17, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:

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 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:32:02 +0100 (MET)
 From: Erik Baigar <erik at baigar.de>
 Subject: Re: pen plotters?
 To: djg at pdp8.net
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 On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 djg at pdp8.net wrote:

  I have a Calcomp 563 drum plotter on my 8/E.
 http://www.pdp8.net/563/563.shtml (need to make a better page now
 that I have it running. Showed it at the last VCF east) 
  to demo but didn't find much.  Anybody know
of some good ones?   
 The format 
 With my Calcomp 1038 I encountered the same problem since the
 plotter language PCI/906 died out and I do not have got any
 documentation about this. In reverse engineering I found
 out how to do the basic operations (gotoxy and pen up / pen
 down) and wrote a converter progaram. To get samples my
 choice was to take the hp2xx utility which is available for
 many platforms. With this you can convert HPGL to a simple
 gotoxy-style which is than easy to process. This saved a lot
 of work on an own interpreter and you are able to plot
 most of the hpgl files...

 By the way: Any documents about PCI906 ot it's successor
 PCI/907 out there?

    Best regards,

       Erik. 
I have a copy of "Calcomp 906/907/951/PCI Online Controller  
Installation Manual"
in which section 3 is 'Command Descriptions' which has 49 pages of  
descriptions.

Would this help?

Roger.