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Alt...A #PenPlotter drawing Truchet tiles on a blue 5.25” floppy disk with a gold marker.

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    It's the most wonderful time of the year: ! I love using floppy disks as a medium to plot on as well as a subject of my pen plots.

    Here's a selection of 5.25" floppy disk plots available in my shop =)

    shop.paulrickards.com/floppy/

    A composite of 5 different 5.25" floppy disks in red, orange, green, yellow, and blue each with a contrasting pen plot drawn on top of it including concentric shapes, Truchet tiles, and primitive shapes such as circles, triangles, and hexagons.

    Alt...A composite of 5 different 5.25" floppy disks in red, orange, green, yellow, and blue each with a contrasting pen plot drawn on top of it including concentric shapes, Truchet tiles, and primitive shapes such as circles, triangles, and hexagons.

    A portrait orientation #PenPlot of a 3 x 4 grid of 5.25" floppy disks shaded in a CMY rainbow scheme with the density of the shading darker at the top and lightening towards the bottom.

    Alt...A portrait orientation #PenPlot of a 3 x 4 grid of 5.25" floppy disks shaded in a CMY rainbow scheme with the density of the shading darker at the top and lightening towards the bottom.

    A #PenPlot on top of a 5.25" black floppy disk of a vanishing point grid drawn in thick gold ink.

    Alt...A #PenPlot on top of a 5.25" black floppy disk of a vanishing point grid drawn in thick gold ink.

    A picture of a #PenPlotter in action drawing on a white 5.25" floppy disk an abstract asteroid made up of triangles that is being disintegrated by a small triangular ship drawn in the left corner that is reminiscent of Asteroids the video game.

    Alt...A picture of a #PenPlotter in action drawing on a white 5.25" floppy disk an abstract asteroid made up of triangles that is being disintegrated by a small triangular ship drawn in the left corner that is reminiscent of Asteroids the video game.

      [?]paulrickards » 🌐
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      The HP DraftMaster RX demo plot is pretty cool. I'd love to lift the vector drawing of the plotter itself.

      I've poked around in the ROMs and while I can find the text strings, I can't find anything else that looks like HPGL.

      Maybe it's generated on the fly?

      The demo/confidence plot from a HP DraftMaster RX pen plotter.

      Alt...The demo/confidence plot from a HP DraftMaster RX pen plotter.

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        The front badge was missing so I created and 3D printed a replacement in brown and white. I think it looks the part.

        A plastic badge that says Hewlett Packard DraftMaster RX stuck to the front of a plastic case.

        Alt...A plastic badge that says Hewlett Packard DraftMaster RX stuck to the front of a plastic case.

          [?]paulrickards » 🌐
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          Here, have this Polaroid SX-70 camera cutaway diagram pen plot, as a treat.

          A large pen plotter with white paper draped over the platen with a completed plot of a cutaway diagram of the Polaroid SX-70 instant camera.

          Alt...A large pen plotter with white paper draped over the platen with a completed plot of a cutaway diagram of the Polaroid SX-70 instant camera.

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            Here's a quick video of the HP DraftMaster RX printing an iteration of Schotter by Nees on 36"x48" (ARCH-E) paper. It's fast!!

            The video also shows the grit wheel drive pulley section that's visible when the cover is off.

            Alt...A video of a pen plotter drawing a large number of squares in black ink on white paper, orderly at the top, and more disorderly down the page.

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              It's huge! 53" wide, 20" deep, and stands 47" tall, and weighs 160lbs!

              Here's some people in a fancy office with two of them for scale.

              Two people standing in a large open room with large full wall windows to the outside, with two large pen plotters on either side of them.

              Alt...Two people standing in a large open room with large full wall windows to the outside, with two large pen plotters on either side of them.

                [?]paulrickards » 🌐
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                Say hello to my latest to my fleet. This is a HP DraftMaster RX from 1991, retailed for $9,995. It's huge, can print up to A0/ARCH-E (36"x48"), and can use roll paper.

                I've been on the hunt for one of these for many years. I think this is about as good as the HP pen plotter got before they were replaced by inkjet plotters.

                Huge thanks to Connor Krukosky for helping me rescue this from the trash!

                A large pen plotter with a large printed page draped over the platen down the front of the test/demo plot detailing the features of the plotter.

                Alt...A large pen plotter with a large printed page draped over the platen down the front of the test/demo plot detailing the features of the plotter.

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