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Re:Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016) by zabzonk on Saturday May 01, 2021 @02:55PM (#27008803)
You may be right - this was a looong time ago. Calculating the angles from the data is not difficult though, so I may have forgot that I did it. I can't really imagine calculating and placing the labels myself though, but perhaps I was cleverer then!

Anyway, the HP pen plotter we had in the early 1980s was a very impressive device, when what we had were Z80 based computers driving them.

Re:Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016) by joshu on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:52AM (#27037576)
You misremember. It doesn't do any of that.