I grew up with books about technology and computers and whatnot which always seemed to include plotters in their sections about output devices (along with laser

I grew up with books about technology and computers and whatnot which always seemed to include plotters in their sections about output devices (along with laser printers, CRTs, etc) and even contemporaneous books in the mid-1990s still talked of plotters as present-day output devices, yet I still haven't ever seen one in-person (but plenty of HP's large-format inkjet printers which still look-like plotters from a distance).