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===IBM===

[[IBM]] sold the Calcomp 565 as the [[IBM 1627]]<ref>{{cite web |website=BitSavers

[[IBM]] sold the Calcomp 565 as the [[IBM 1627]] for use with its low-end scientific computers, first the [[IBM 1620]], and, later, the [[IBM 1130]]. It was perhaps the first non-IBM peripheral that IBM allowed to be attached to one of its computers.

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[[IBM]] sold the Calcomp |quote=our CalComp 565 asgraph plotter the(alias [[IBM 1627]])}}</ref> for use with its low-end scientific computers, first the [[IBM 1620]], and, later, the [[IBM 1130]]. It was perhaps the first non-IBM peripheral that IBM allowed to be attached to one of its computers.

A Calcomp plotter attached to an [[IBM 1401]] was used to develop [[Bresenham's line algorithm]] in 1962.<ref name = DADS>Paul E. Black. ''Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures,'' [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|NIST]]. https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/bresenham.html</ref>