From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T09:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

On 7/21/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> 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.


We had a neat little orbital-mechanics game for ours.  It drew two
crosses to represent the earth and the moon and started plotting an
earth orbit.  You fire thrusters with the sense switches on the
console to fire 'thrusters' to try to go to 'lunar' orbit.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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