Art for Auction by GRNCH
On display at Resistor and up for auction: “Null 1.2” – GRNCH Pen plot on paper 30″ x 20″ 2024 This is round 2 of our extremely slow, perpetual, single-file art auction fundraiser. Bids for the art can be…
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Pulling Teeth From a Corpse: Extracting the Vector Font From the Apple 410 Color Plotter
My favorite artifacts to extract from an old ROM dump are the fonts. For old 80’s-era computers and control equipment, these are usually 1-bit raster fonts covering the ASCII character set. Sometimes, the fonts are even encoded on their own…
Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter
After seeing some of the jaw-dropping and inspiring plotter art that’s been popping up on #plottertwitter this year, I decided to get in on the fun. We don’t have an Axidraw or other modern plotting device handy, but I did…