HP DraftMaster I

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Aug 31 17:09:08 1999

At 01:25 AM 8/31/99 -0500, Doug wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I thought I'd break in amongst all the big-brained stuff about part
>design and announce to the world that I've garbage-picked a Hewlett
>Packard DraftMaster I (7595A).
>
>It was easy to get home because it was only two streets over, and the
>wheels roll nicely.
>
>It went downhill really well, so I'm considering entering it in next
>year's Soap Box Derby.
>
>I'm also planning on building some shelves into it, to justify its space
>requirements.
>
>The machine DOES work. I plugged it into my Amiga, and managed to get
>it to draw a bicycle from an old PD CAD package off a magazine disk. It
>keeps chewing on the flimsy paper I've got, though.
>
>It has an HPIB port on it, so I'll have to write a HPGL driver for my
>PET one of these days. ;)
>
>Anyone know how old this thing is?

   Look at the serial number. Add 1960 to the first two digits and that will tell you what year it was made. The second pair of digits will tell you the week that it was made.

HP's web site lists "DraftMaster" as
>one of their trademarks, but I couldn't find much else out about it.
>
>I used to work as a CAD operator at one of the big engineering firms in
>downtown Montreal, so this is a cool find.

   Yes, they're NICE plotters. Unfortunately, everyone is throwing them out and replacing them with ink jets. I rescued two of them but couldn't even give them away.

      Joe
Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 17:09:08 BST