6 Sep
2006
6 Sep
'06
6:28 p.m.
At 06:51 PM 9/6/2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I think a lot of old TV programs used the MICR
characters such as seen on
bank checks. (or cheques). I used to have a typewriter (Olivetti) with the
OCR-A font on it--a memo typed in it looked just plain crude. I think
that the OCR-B font available for daisywheel printers is one of the better
fixed-spacing fonts.
Did MICR only include 0-9 and the control characters?
We're not talking OCR-A and OCR-B, right?
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?
- John
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:54 am, Mike Loewen wrote:
Back in February, someone mentioned the odd
looking tape hardware used
in the TV show "Search" from 1972:
http://www.probecontrol.com/
Someone guessed that these were "memory tape loop" units. I found the
same units in Woody Allen's "Sleeper":
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Tapeloop.jpg
Can anyone identify these, positively? Were they really data storage
units, or audio units?
