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Old 09-25-2018, 10:25 PM
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Default Re: Should I get another Mac?

In other old computer news, I bid for and won a vintage 1989 plotter on Ebay! I was the only bidder so I only had to pay the automatic opening bid of £0.99 :cheer:

... but I did have to drive 150 miles each way to collect it. :sadcheer:

... but it was a nice sunny day so I enjoyed the drive, and did some Ingressing in Swaffham - I was running early and didn't want to arrive to pick it up before the agreed time. I actually gave the seller £5 for helping by dismantling it and carrying it out with me and lifting the it into my car (it's an A1 plotter, so much too big when assembled on its legs to fit in a car). The fuel for the collection journey cost about five times as much as I paid anyhow.

I just assembled it, powered it up, and it plotted out a nice self test with the one pen that actually works - so now I need to figure out how to wire it up (RS232), rejuvenate the dried-out pens somehow, buy some larger format paper to print on, and find / write some drivers to get it plotting...
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