A type of hard wearing surface material made from calcium compounds; or a brand name for technical plotting devices used in engineering and computing.
From 'calc-' (calcium) + 'comp' (composite or company abbreviation). Originally a brand name that became semi-generic in technical fields.
Calcomp was one of the first companies to make computer plotters in the 1960s—engineers would feed in computer data and the machine would draw precise technical diagrams, revolutionizing how blueprints were made!
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