26 Feb
2015
26 Feb
'15
8:02 a.m.
Jos Dreesen wrote:
Anyone has the DEC font, as used to mark their
papertapes, ready in
machine readable format ? ( C include file preferred )
The 8x6 format I use now just does not have the right look to it.
DEC used different fonts for labeling their paper-tapes:
On my original
"DEC-08-YPPA-PB 11/10/69"
most characters are in 5x6, except the zero which is
7x6 and "-" which is 3x6:
..XXX.X
.X...X.
.X..XX.
.X.X.X.
.X...X.
X.XXX..
between every character are 2 empty steps.
on the same tape there is also a copyright message in proportional
4x5 / 3x5 format.
On my original "802 RIM 9/1/65 CHECKERBOARD - HIGH"
and original "DEC-08-AFC3-PB 8/67 FORTRAN OPERATING SYSTEM"
they use a different proportional font:
8 is coded 5x6, 0 is coded 4x6, I is coded 3x6.
Then there is a program "LABEL.BN" which I use as device-driver
to label my programs, this uses a fixed font 4x6.
For this program I have the PAL-source.
Klemens