Tektronix designed B and C size plotters as accessories for their DVST graphic terminals. The 4662 is a B size plotter introduced in 1976. Later the 4662 was upgraded with an eight pen changer.

This 1976 issue of Tekscope, volume 8 number 3, describes the 4662. Click on the image to view the PDF.

 

The 4663, a C size plotter was introduced in 1979. This photo show the 4662, 4663, and the 4631.

This ad features the 4631 hard copy and 4662 and 4663 plotters. Click on the image to view the PDF.

This 1979 brochure features the 4663 C-size plotter. Click on the image to view the PDF.

The museum has a 4662 connected to our 4051 desktop graphics system to demonstrate operation.

Here are two graphic images that we've plotted. Amazingly the pens, now 46+ years old, are still good.

This Death Star took 10 minutes to plot.

This list is the graphic images we have on the 4051 that can be plotted.

4: 4050 series picture
9: Sin (x)/x
10: Gothic font (MDC)
11: Wheel section
12: Dish antenna
13: Nuclear cooling tower
14: World map
16: 3D wave
22: Dragon (MDC)
23: Mickey Mouse (MDC)
24: Tek bug
25: Snoopy
26: Tek wizard
27: R2D2 (MDC)
28: Cheshire cat
29: Grinch (MDC)
30: 465 front
31: Rocket (MDC)
32: Death star (MDC)
33: Laser cannon (MDC)
34: Bump
35: Eagle (MDC)
36: (3D Surface plot (MDC)
37: Darth Vader
38: Complex curve (MDC)
121: Street map
122: Snoopy as the "Red Baron"
123: Simple bar graph
124: Tek the big picture
125: Six graphic charts
127: USA states map
128: Factory
130: Refinery
131: Vortex flows
132: 3D tilted sinc mesh
133: Pluto occultation A19.85
134: Disspla example fonts

MDC indicates created by Micheal Cranford