From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-22T10:18:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
>> As I recall, the [IBM 1627] plotter was a bit of badge-engineering, it
>> was really
>> from calcomp with an IBM badge.
> 
> That's always been my impression, though, never having been a plotter
> guy, I can't swear to it.
> 

Yep ... we had one and we even called it the Calcomp Plotter. :) I wrote
a couple of assembly-language plot routines for it that ran *rings*
around what it could do in FORTRAN.