HP 7200A plotter

From: Bill McDermith <bill_mcdermith_at_mcdermith.net>
Date: Wed Jun 30 23:21:09 2004

We had an HP 7200A plotter connected to a 9810 calculator
in our physics lab in college. I don't have any docs for
it, though, other than I can still picture it next to the
calculator -- this would have been early-mid 70s....

Bill


Ashley Carder wrote:

> I'll see if I can get some further information on this
> plotter. Surely an HP plotter can't be this elusive!
> My documentation does say HP 7200A.
>
> Let me drop an email to my retired professor who managed
> our computer center from the late 1960s through 2001.
> Perhaps he has some info on it.
>
> Ashley
>
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> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:49:30 -0400
> "Ashley Carder" <wacarder_at_usit.net> wrote:
>
>>Sorry, I don't have a picture of it. I've found
>>reference to it
>>by Google-ing, but only a couple of references. I do
>>remember it.
>>It was flat, sat on a table, was maybe 14" x 14" (a
>>guess), and
>>had little pens that you mounted in the "drawing arm" or
>>whatever
>>you want to call it. I have a page of documentation on
>>how to
>>use it from our 1978 computer center "user's guide".
>
>
> The only 72xx models that I am aware of are (ahem,
> *were* :>) the 7225{A,B} and 7240/7245. But, the
> 724x was thermal so I assume that's not it. The
> 7225 matches your description, though -- ~14-15" square
> desktop footprint... buttons across the front...
>
> --don
>
>
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