On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 7:38:25 AM UTC-5 Alex wrote: I had an HP 7580B plotter on its (non detachable) stand. It was 4ft high and about the same wide, 8 pens and serial / GPIB control. It had auto sheet size detection and manual jogging, as well as the ability to use it as a semi manual scanner to report x-y coordinates back to the comouter. I used it as a vinyl cutter for a bit and it worked ok but never really had the pen pressure... Incredible pen plotter though, so fast and mesmerising to watch. The built in demo was a work of art. It was still working fine when I sold it about 5 years ago, due to complaints from the space police about the appropriateness of such things in a living room, when it was circa 40 years old...
I'm a pretty lucky guy... While apparently leaving my tools on the floor is a faux pas, the better half has no issue with the 8ft tall vintage NYC traffic light (complete with graffitied aluminum pole) I picked up from a surplus shop lol. Oh - and her first Christmas gift to me after we got married was an old school electromechanical Gottlieb pinball machine. She gets me ;-) But gawd forbid I leave some cables on the kitchen table! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4b08dc7a-9ab3-403a-80eb-1e32ed94dfafn%40googlegroups.com.
