Hey! I have an HP 7580a pen plotter and it was fantastic..! I used it to develop the SmartCharts for Strike Weight Specification that are sold with the Touch Designer Toolkits..... I use AutoCadLite for my drafting software and the configuration for this model is in the manual! Amazing for a dinasour! It required Cables that I made up according to their diagram. Infortunately when I switched to a new computer I haven't been able to get it to work.. Need a nerd.... But they are built to last and I believe you can get it working.... The results are quite outstanding. The work of a pen plotter looks alot like it was drafted by hand. They are amazing to watch with the paper jigging and jagging in the x and y planes... You can still buy all the supplies you need.. David Stanwood >From: Robert Goodale <rrg@nevada.edu> >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: PTG <pianotech@ptg.org> >Subject: Off Topic - Info on Plotters >Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:13:01 -0700 > ><<<Off Topic>>> > >Howdee, > >I have gotten a hold of a couple of plotters from the university surplus >department. I've gotten to be buddies with the gentleman in charge who >has been scrounging up various surplus computer equipment for me. Kind >of a new Diddle-O-Round hobby. Anyway, they got a few old plotters in >from the drafting people in the architecture department. One is an HP >"Draftmaster" model 7595A. The other is made by "Optical Computer", >model 928. > >I thought it might be fun to get one of these working to play with. So >far it SOUNDS like, (from limited research), they are very old and >obsolete. They are designed for drafting and not for graphics. Does >anyone no anything about these things? They are pen plotters, which I >understand these days have been pretty much replaced by color print >heads. I understand the pens are rather pricey. Any info on these old >things would be appreciated. Trash or treasure?? > >Rob Goodale, RPT >Las Vegas, NV > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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