<story><title>Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter</title><url>https://www.nycresistor.com/2017/12/13/reviving-the-apple-410-color-plotter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewwiese</author><text>Great and simple write-up. Vaguely remembered nycresistor from other articles I&amp;#x27;ve read, so I&amp;#x27;m glad this was posted here.&lt;p&gt;I think HN would be well served to have more front page retro hardware hacking articles. They may not be useful in the same way as other posts, but they sure as heck are delicious brain food and a relaxing diversion.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter</title><url>https://www.nycresistor.com/2017/12/13/reviving-the-apple-410-color-plotter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imglorp</author><text>Since OP mentioned the nice big HP x,y plotters, that reminds me I once wrote an emacs lisp HPGL driver to hit the serial port and run one in grad school. I&amp;#x27;ll have to dig it up sometime.&lt;p&gt;Edit, just remembered: it was probably to output one of the VLSI CAD layer formats, like GDS or EDIF.</text></comment>