4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
7:05 p.m.
On 04/11/11 11:10 AM, Phil Budne wrote:
You mean one of this genre?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qu1j0t3/4682848332/in/set-72157624233444734
(Berthold typesetting system keyboard which connected to an OEM Sun
workstation).
Since we are talking about digital typesetting - the famous digital font
creation system URW IKARUS ran on VAX gear - including 11/750*, I
believe. I don't have details handy (Wikipedia might) but I believe this
system was licensed to essentially all the major type foundries
(Letraset UK and ITC (US) were notable users). After the letterforms
were digitised from hand drawings (using a puck) they were used to
create analogue products such as dry transfer lettering and photosetting
masters, as well as a wide variety of digital vector and bitmap formats
(yes, digital typefaces have been around quite a long time).
In the late 1980s, the IKARUS system was ported to Macintosh as IKARUS/M
and could produce PostScript fonts directly.
--Toby
* - Like mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qu1j0t3/4684199492/in/set-72157624233444734
From:
"Shoppa, Tim"<tshoppa at wmata.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:22:01 -0400
.....
There was at least one other company that
specialized in typesetting
for classified ads that used PDP-11's for typesetting. Their name is
not coming to mind at the moment but they were surprisingly common
at metropolitan newspapers. I remember them using the 3270-like
capabilities of VT-oh-something terminals.
I don't know if this is what you were thinking of, but... ATEX made
PDP-11 based systems for newspapers. I remember a DEC FORTRAN-10/20
co-worker in the 1980's telling us how much better their editing
terminals were than TOPS-20 EMACS we were using. He showed us a
picture of a LARGE custom keyboard (one that put the ungainly PC
inspired Mac keyboards of the 1990's that people used to call "The
Enterprise" (after the aircraft carrier, and perhaps IBM as well!) to
shame).
...
phil