Interlisp-D (Medley) "display font" disks for the 1186?

Josh Dersch derschjo at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 22:38:51 CDT 2015


On 9/7/15 10:23 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> On 9/7/15 7:21 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
>

> Quick update:  This compiled (with warnings) on my Mac and seems to 
> run fine.  It does appear to support 5.25" 360K images and I was able 
> to extract files from the 1186/6085 images (from Bitsavers). The 
> ViewPoint images do not seem to have any loosely-packaged font files 
> on them, they're all in some kind of container format.  The 1186 
> images  yielded a bit more fruit, there are font files with extension 
> ".STRIKE" on the XDE floppies and ".PSCFONT" on "Medley LispUsers #15".
>
> Neither of these seem to match the few examples of filenames I see in 
> the 1186 docs, but I'll see if I can get a couple of these disks 
> written out and see what's what later this week.
>
> I also looked briefly at the images for the 1108 and nothing obvious 
> jumped out.
>
>
> - Josh
>

Just to bring a sort of closure to this thread: a friend of mine has a 
currently non-working 1186 with an installation of the Lyric release of 
Interlisp-D installed on the drive; I installed the hard drive in my 
1186 and copied the display fonts from it over to a floppy.  They appear 
to work perfectly on Medley, and all is right with the world.

I have made a disk image of the ad-hoc font disk I created, and just for 
convenience I've also extracted them from the disk image, here:

http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/xerox/interlisp-displayfonts.zip

Maybe they'll be useful for someone else in the future...

- Josh



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