On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:05 AM, John Kubie wrote:
Something like this would be a spectacular feature for me. I don't know precisely how ScaleMode is implemented in VB. I do remember terrific set of graphics features in a very old HP computer series, the series 80 from the early 1980s. These were, in fact, early microcomputers aimed at scientists and engineers. They had convenience operators such as scale, and also "axes" that let you put up axes with tic marks. (As I remember, for the series 80 you could buy plug-in ram chips that extended the language with matrix commands, etc).
Those capabilities were introduced about a decade earlier by HP. ... In the early 70s HP introduced a BASIC programmable "desktop calculator" wit a QUERTY keyboard (it really was a PC IMO) that had those features... I programmed one in the mid-70s. Although it only had a single line display we had the 80 column thermal printer the XY plotter and the digitizer as well as the matrix, plotting and string handling extensions to the language
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