Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

[Erik Baigar]

Hi Simon,

thanks for your email and the link to the pictures - you indeed
have a more modern version of the controller. Maybe, yours is the
later OPC907 and not the 906 I have got. Anyhow the plugs look
quite similar, so it probably is a drop in repelacelemt...

My controller understands a subset ot the PCI/907 commands, but this
did nor hurt me as I am only using the very basic pen up / pen down
and goto commands.

The pictures are all I currently have got (at least until my next
visit at my parent's basement  ;-))

I think first step is to make the keypads work and than to look
into the controller of the plotter...

    Best regards,

       Erik.



On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, simon wrote:

> Hey this is interesting. we have a different controller, indicating that a 
> change from a 1038 to a 1039 involved changing the controller as well.
>
> see my pics.
> https://hack42.nl/gallery/v/Museum/2015-09-18-138.jpg
>
> unfortunately i cannot find a picture of the back of the controller.
>
> simon
>
> On 05-10-15 07:59, Erik Baigar wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>> 
>> thanks for your email. I took the pictures on the weekend and loaded
>> them onto my server - curious, whether you have got the same setup:
>>
>>     http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X/
>> 
>>> than that pictured in the user guide. I took some more picts of the
>>> pcb's in the machine. I will post them on our hack42.nl site later today.
>> 
>> Great, I will check for your pictures and compare... I have got
>> engineering drawings (i.e. schematics) only for the power supply,
>> the logic board (sequencer) and the pen driver. Unfortunately the
>> schematics for the OPC (online plotter controller?) are missing,
>> i.e. exactly for the interesting PCB with the CPU there are no
>> schematics at the moment  :-(
>> 
>>> was loose inside the machine, and it seems ours is wired for current
>>> loop, looking at the settings decal on the inside of the backplate.
>>> How is yours wired?
>> 
>> That looks very crowded as you can see and I do not know whether
>> this is representative. I guess mine was used in some form of
>> daisy chain setup but at least the levels are RS232. Yes - I have
>> been able to plot data on my plotter, but the PCI/906 language
>> the OPC uses is quite strange and the RS232 is not that easy as it
>> is using hardware handshake and checks for all signals (RTS/CTS
>> and DSR/DTR) I think.
>> 
>>> I had to put away the calcomp for the time being as we had a fair
>>> yesterday.
>> 
>> Yes, that is quite a heavy machine. Mine is stored at my parent's
>> basement, so I only have access to the plotter and the documentation
>> once a month...
>> 
>> Best regards,
>>
>>     Erik.
>>