On 17/01/2025 14:59, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
   The high bit indicated laser on/off, and the rest of
the bits were a
 15-bit repeat count.  A token of all zero indicates the end of that
 raster line.  2 consecutive zero tokens indicates the end of the
 entire plot.
 <snip> 
That's pretty much the compression method used for GEM .IMG files
(from
memory)!