6 Sep
2006
6 Sep
'06
10:19 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 9/6/2006 at 8:28 PM John Foust wrote:
When I was 9 years old MICR fonts said 'the future is computers'.
Everything to do with the space-age/computers/future used MICR-alpha in marketing.
I think the title of Byte magazine was (is?) the last holdout (1984 is the
most recent issue I have).
(There was an article in Annals of the History of Computing a few years ago
about the development of automated cheque processing and MICR (late 50s)).
On the topic of future prognostications becoming out-dated, a little while
ago I saw a 370 front panel and the first thing that came to mind was
"Oh, how 2001-ish" - the association being common design themes (to my
perceptions) between the front panel and stuff in the movie '2001: A Space
Oddysey'.
Today they both say "1970".
Who is it that has that sig "The future was never like this" ?.
Did MICR only include 0-9 and the control
characters?
Yep-- 0 through 9 and 5 special characters. But old TV programs such as
"Probe" gave alpha titles an MICR look also. I don't know if there's
a
proper name for that contrived font.
Were the stylish fonts seen in the
"Search" opening credits ever
actually used by computers, or were they a graphic designer's
riff on MICR, extending it to alphabetic characters, too?
Pure Hollywood, as far as I can tell.
Cheers,
Chuck