[comp.periphs] Seek XY input plotter

tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) (07/01/87)

                                    

    I am looking to buy a 2d XY spatial locator.  I have seen
    such devices on systems but don't know who makes them or even
    where to begin looking for them.  The device I have seen passively
    reads the XY location of pen (or whatever).

    What I *really* want though is something like an XY pen plotter
    without the paper: i.e. something that the computer can control
    over an RS-232 line to place a probe within a fixed 2D space,
    about 1 foot square.  Does anybody make such a device?  What I 
    need to do is control a probe to scan a 1 foot square, flat surface.
    Does anybody manufacture such things?  

    Thanks in advance,

/tom