To sort of fulfil a niche fantasy I’m after an early pen plotter. Something a3 size. Someone must have one somewhere cluttering up a cupboard.
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Argh! Flashback to writing drivers for those things.
PU (pen up)
PD (pen down)
etc.
We really were banging rocks together in those days 
There’s no doubt that it might end up in a pile of smaller bits of plastic out side the window it’s likely to get thrown out of when it doesn’t work.
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Wow, been in the IT game 38 years or so and I don’t I think I have ever seen one in action/iperson. We have come along way except of course they were built like tanks so you could chuck out the window when they messed up.
I guess it would get boring quick but I reckon I could be entertained just watching it do its thing for a solid hour or two.
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total flashback, we used one in the office for several years, quite the source of frustration
We also had a Roland DXY-1300 for some time as well
how i imagine this will end up going
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I used one in the 1980’s for quite a lot of the figures in my doctoral thesis. It seemed to work well enough, if a bit slowly.
Can you still get the pens for them ? They weren’t cheap even then and they tended to dry up disappointingly quickly IIRC, somehow always when you were nearly at the end of a long complicated job. If you were lucky you could pause the job and dab the pen tip with some (probably banned now) solvent which would revive the pen for just long enough.
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You can get stl files to 3d print adapters to hold drawing pens in them.
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Does it come with ear defenders ? 
Had one of these back in the day, got it as part of a disk drive / printer bundle. It really could have done with sprocket drive rather than just friction. Eventually it became part of a complex deal for a Kawasaki AR80 motorbike which I crashed horrendously.
If anyone on the forum has a time portal to the 1980’s and before Chris would buy it.