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Few years ago I bought an old calcomp model 83(m83)

I fiddled with it and it did a self test.

well here I am five years or so later and I finally deiced to try it
again, but cant remember what button combination I used to get a self
test out of it.

It says rs232 on th back with dip switches for baud rate etc.

Does anyone have one of thse still, I'm wondering what type of serial
cable to use on it first, and more importantly, what to use as a
driver with XP.



-- 

Lez

ISTR that Calcomp got bought up by Summatech.

Might do a Goggle for the drivers.

Hugh




Lez wrote:

> Few years ago I bought an old calcomp model 83(m83)
> 
> I fiddled with it and it did a self test.
> 
> well here I am five years or so later and I finally deiced to try it
> again, but cant remember what button combination I used to get a self
> test out of it.
> 
> It says rs232 on th back with dip switches for baud rate etc.
> 
> Does anyone have one of thse still, I'm wondering what type of serial
> cable to use on it first, and more importantly, what to use as a
> driver with XP.
> 
> 
>

Calcomp is still around, though they've apparently changed their name to 
Calgraph.

I recently acquired a Calcomp techjet, (36" inkjet plotter), and have 
been trying to find drivers for it.

The two best resources I've found are:
http://www.printer-drivers.com/companies/186.htm
http://www.calgraphinc.com/Support/cgdrivers.htm

Winline is supposed to support Calcomp stuff too, but I've had no 
success with the demo, Your experience may vary.
http://www.winline.com/

Good Luck.

If you get anywhere, let me know. I'm stumped as far as my plotter goes.


Hugh Prescott wrote:
>
> ISTR that Calcomp got bought up by Summatech.
>
> Might do a Goggle for the drivers.
>
> Hugh
>
> Lez wrote:
> > Few years ago I bought an old calcomp model 83(m83)
> >
> > I fiddled with it and it did a self test.
> >
> > well here I am five years or so later and I finally deiced to try it
> > again, but cant remember what button combination I used to get a self
> > test out of it.
> >
> > It says rs232 on th back with dip switches for baud rate etc.
> >
> > Does anyone have one of thse still, I'm wondering what type of serial
> > cable to use on it first, and more importantly, what to use as a
> > driver with XP.
> >
> >
> >
>
>  



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Stephen Lane wrote:
    Winline supports the following Calcomp plotters by name but it is a 
general HPGL & HPGL2 Driver so if the Plotter can emulate either then it 
will do the job

[CalComp]
"Artisan Plus 1023" : 
"Artisan Plus 1025" : 
"Artisan Plus 1026" : 
"DesignMate 30xx" : 
"DrawingMaster 600 53336" : 
"DrawingMaster 800 53436" : 
"DrawingMaster Plus 522xx" : 
"DrawingMaster Plus 524xx" : 
"DrawingMaster Pro 524xx" : 
"EcoGrafix I 52436" : 
"EcoGrafix II 53436" : 
"Pacesetter 20xx" : 
"Pacesetter Classic 4036" : 
"Solus 4 544xx" : 
"TechJET 55xx" : 
"TechJET Color 175i 5336" : 
"TechJET Color 53xx" : 
"TechJET Color GT 53xx" : 
"TechJET Designer 54xx" : 
"TechJET Designer 720 54xx" : 
"TechJET Designer 720c 56xx" : 

I hope it helps

Regards
Stephen Lane

--- Fake_Name <cat176@...> wrote:

> Calcomp is still around, though they've apparently
> changed their name to 
> Calgraph.
> 
> I recently acquired a Calcomp techjet, (36" inkjet
> plotter), and have 
> been trying to find drivers for it.
> 
> The two best resources I've found are:
> http://www.printer-drivers.com/companies/186.htm
> http://www.calgraphinc.com/Support/cgdrivers.htm
> 
> Winline is supposed to support Calcomp stuff too,
> but I've had no 
> success with the demo, Your experience may vary.
> http://www.winline.com/
> 
> Good Luck.
> 
> If you get anywhere, let me know. I'm stumped as far
> as my plotter goes.
> 

Try http://www.driverguide.com. It's saved my ass and
sanity a number of times. A percursory search didn't
get me very far, but Calcomp's there and I didn't look
very hard.

Free registration is required, but just give it the
addy to your spambox.

- YD.



 
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:41:43 +0100, YD <yd_br@...> wrote:

> Try http://www.driverguide.com. It's saved my ass and
> sanity a number of times. A percursory search didn't
> get me very far, but Calcomp's there and I didn't look
> very hard.
> Free registration is required, but just give it the
> addy to your spambox.

So they finally stopped accepting user "drivers" and pass "all" for  
access...

Oh well, what's safersignup for..

ST

Can  not connect to it at say 300baud on com1 with hyperterminal and type it
a command to see if I actually have a working cable between the two?


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