Fast IBM 6182 pen plotter drawing the Adler steam locomotive
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2013
- The Adler steam locomotive (1835) drawn by an ultra fast 1980's IBM 6182 pen plotter (true speed!).
The Adler ("Eagle") was a German steam locomotive built to order in 1835 by the British railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson at a cost of 1750 pounds sterling. It was delivered to the Bavarian Ludwigsbahn (Bayerische Ludwigsbahn) which ran 7.45 kilometre long between Nuremberg and Fürth. After running successfully for over twenty years the locomotive was scrapped in 1857.
The IBM 6182 pen plotter from 1984, derived from the HP 7550, is the most advanced small plotter ever built. It has an incredible maximum acceleration of 6g, making it one of the fastest plotters ever. It was also the first plotter to include a sheet feeder, which allowed for unattended plotting.
Pen plotters were popular computer printing devices during the 1980's for printing vector graphics. They print by moving a pen across the surface of a piece of paper, much like a human hand does. This means their drawing capabilities are restricted to line art.
To be able to draw all sorts of shapes the plotter pen needs to be able to move across the paper on an X and Y axis. The IBM and HP line of pen plotters have a specific design where the pen moves along one axis, and the paper moves along the other axis ('grit wheel' mechanism). The pen is mounted on a carriage that moves back and forth in a line between the grit wheels, representing the orthogonal axis. These plotters became popular for desktop business graphics and in engineering laboratories for technical drawings. Starting from the mid-1990's pen plotters were gradually replaced by high-resolution inkjet and laser printers. Surviving pen plotters have often been converted to venyl sign cutters. - Věda a technologie
I've watched this several times, but only this time did I notice that the drawing seems to be missing a line-the horizontal line at the top of the suspension of the front wheel. The third wheel from the front, which is otherwise identical, does have that line.
It sounds like a real locomotive running when it draws a wheel.
I would so love to have one of theses ! It's insanely fast !
It's a very beautiful piece of old technology !
This Is Very Good
Wow that’s amazingly fast! How does the pen keep up? I’d think it could have trouble keeping up with how fast it moves!
wowwww😍😍😍 love from India
@Hans - do you still have the file for this plot? I've bought an HP 7550A and would love to test it out with this graphic!
Watch at 1.25x speed for maximum disorientation lol.
I like the feedrate
🔥🔥🔥
insanely fast.
After watching this, going back to doing other things feels like being in slow motion
Using Hewlett-Packard pens!
geweldig
Holy shit..
I just watched this video after 5 years. Actually I am working on kinda of similar 2d plotter which will be used to draw human face in either black and white style or colorfull sketch.. but don't have much idea on how it is gonna out.. any help will be appreciated..
What is the carrousel specifications?
This was based on the HP 7550 - I wonder, did IBM make it any faster or do any other changes?
No. It came off the same assembly line in HP's San Diego factory, with it's IBM badge, IBM owners manual, and was placed by HP employees in an IBM box. Some people liked them better than the identical HP 7550A plotters because the IBM versions cost more.
@@jbrawn3 There is an internal (ROM) difference - ID code.
I cant find this plotter when I look up the name
U should do a pen plotter drawing a csx train
where can I buy this❤️?🥲please help
Woah! How does it calculate the most efficient route? Anyone know?
Sorry, I wasn't notified you asked a question. Actually, the hectic sequence is quite intentional. To keep it interesting to watch I changed the order of the lines so it offers some more spectacle. It can be quite dull to watch if it keeps drawing in one corner for a long time to fill all the details.
@@Wepouaout What's your workflow consist of? How do you tell it what order you want the lines drawn in?
Technical details, although a modern computer could easily compute the most efficient route, an older model like this would have insufficient memory. Generally, an algorithm for finding the "best" path will find a sufficiently good path, but not actually the best one
@@Wepouaout Is the HPGL code available?
Who set the drum machine to thrash metal?
Printers on drugs!
So why use this over say... a laser printer that does it in 10 seconds?
When this was a new device, there were no color laser printers.
That is speeded up
clearly sped up
I think the video is sped up
The video is CLEARLY sped up - look how the camera focuses. What a load of malarkey
No, it truly is the real speed. This plotter is capable of a 6G acceleration. It was IBM's top model. My camera's autofocus is simply confused by all the movement.
@@GravyHucker No, it truly is the real speed. This plotter is capable of a 6G acceleration. It was IBM's top model. My camera's autofocus is simply confused by all the movement.
Definitely not sped up. I used on of these attached to a Digital VAX machine at college and it was mesmerizing to watch, and just like this.