11 May
2017
11 May
'17
7:37 a.m.
Max Mathews produced a set of three fonts at Bell Labs in 1967 as well.
"Three Fonts of Computer-drawn Letters"
The Journal of Typographic Research pp 345-356
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/V1N4_1967_E.pdf
which we have in the collection
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102675897
I read the cards about a month ago, I'll check when the data is going to be made
available
On 5/11/17 3:53 AM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
I grew up with X-Y scope displays, their associated
electrostatic printers, and Calcomp pen plotters. To draw letters and symbols on these, we
used Fortran libraries driven by data tables to make "Hershey Characters".