HP 7470A Plotter

Home > Browse Our Collection > Computers > Hewlett Packard > HP Peripherals > HP 7470A Plotter

Two pen plotter, originally retailing for $1550, unlike other contemporary plotters,this machine moved the paper for the pens to draw, rather than having to pin the paper down, and move the pens around on a complicated mechanical arm. This reduced the size of the machine, due to having less parts.

It had three interfaces, HP-IB, RS-232-C and HP-IL for connection to HP handheld computers.

Date : 1982

Manufacturer : Hewlett Packard

Format : Plotter

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH48318. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.