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How to select an analog data recorder for use with a computer. Includes tips on modifying the Rustrak chart recorder.
COMPUTERCRAFT Nov 1991 (v.1#8) pg. 73

Budget strip-chart recorder. Convert an old impact printer by removing the mechanical print head and installing a marking pen in its place. Est. cost: $40.
ELECTRONICS NOW Jul 1996 (v.67#7) pg. 43

X-Y plotting with a Y-T plotter. How to make a less expensive chart recorder produce X-Y plots.
KILOBAUD MICROCOMPUTING #43 Jul 1980 pg. 186

Program transforms a computer into a sophisticated chart recorder. The joystick port is used to input the analog signals to be charted.
MODERN ELECTRONICS [2] Oct 1988 (v.5#10) pg. 66

Chart recorders and storage oscilloscopes. What is available and tips on their use.
MODERN ELECTRONICS [2] Sep 1989 (v.6#9) pg. 52

Experimenting with surplus goodies. Ideas for elapsed-time indicators, electroluminescent panels, 60-Hz oscillator module, and chart recorder.
MODERN ELECTRONICS [2] Dec 1990 (v.7#12) pg. 48

Budget strip chart recorder. How to convert an old computer printer into a strip-chart recorder. Est. cost: $40.
POPTRONIX EXPERIMENTER HANDBOOK Summer 1997 pg. 43

Scanner-servo-recorder. Device records experimental data in the form of graphs drawn by a pen on a moving sheet of paper. It also records a series of events and measures the interval of time in which an event occurs. In addition, it can feed information back to the source, thus functioning as a servomechanism. Est. cost: $18.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Jul 1966 (v.215#1) pg. 114

How to construct a simple amplifying device that can be adapted to drive a pen recorder.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN May 1970 (v.222#5) pg. 130

Simple monitor with compensating devices is the key to this homemade chart recorder. Either drum type or strip type recorder may be constructed.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Mar 1972 (v.226#3) pg. 114

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