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From: leonard@percival.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does anyboy [dis] like HP 7440 plotter?
Message-ID: <478@percival.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 23:17:42 EST
Article-I.D.: percival.478
Posted: Fri Mar 20 23:17:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 21:15:02 EST
References: <403@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@percival.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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Keywords: Is it any good?

In article <403@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>wondering if the significantly cheaper 7440 is up to snuff (or at
>least pretty close) relative to the 7475.
>

We recently got a couple of 7440's at work. They work quite well.

*However* some 7475 commands are ignored unless you have a 'graphics
enchancement cartridge' installed. The only program that exhibited
any problems was a custom plotting routine in BASIC written at a
German branch of our company. No documentation, and the programmer
no longer works for us. We couldn't even find some of the commands
in the (short) list of commands in the HPGL docs we have.
Most commercial software doesn't get quite that creative...
(yes it *does* work on the 7475s)


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