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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1520 printer/plotter
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Date: 12 Aug 89 22:39:28 GMT
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In article <13412@nuchat.UUCP> seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen) writes:
>Not sure if you can still buy Commodore brand refill pens... 
>...but I understand there is a Radio Shack equivalent.
     There is indeed a Radio Shack pen equivalent; a guy who used to live
around here had a 1520 and that's where he got his pens. You might be able
to just carry in a blank and match it up.
>>          -What software is it comparable with.
>...the only software I've seen that took
>advantage of the plotting abilites was homebrew stuff.  There's
>probably a commercial program that talks to this little plotter,
>but I've never heard of one.
     I seem to recall that FlexiDraw 5.5 would talk to it, as well as to
another, similar little plotter, the name of which escapes me. FlexiDraw
isn't a great paint programme, but it's not too bad. Its printer support
is truly excellent. I own a Diablo C150 (parallel port colour inkjet), which
I'd not seen anything support in C64/128 land (I use it on my Amiga), but
Flexidraw supported it out of the box.
                                                     - R'ykandar
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