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!

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