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===IBM=== [[IBM]] marketed the Calcomp 565 as its [[IBM 1627]]<ref>{{cite web |website=BitSavers |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/common/Proceedings_of_the_Meeting_of_the_Western_Region_of_COMMON_196512.pdf |title=The International Hotel Los Angeles, California. December 6 |quote=our CalComp 565 graph plotter (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>
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