On 05/11/2017 07:45 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Computer drawn characters are older than that; a good
example of
vector drawn characters is the CDC 6600 console, from around 1964.
Or the plotter library documented in report MR 73 from the
Mathematical Center in Amsterdam, April 1965. Both are simpler
letter shapes than in Hershey's document.
CDC, for a time, standardized on a variation of OCR-A for their
"official" correspondence typefont. I used an Olivetti typewriter in my
office at CDC for just that--I hated the look of the stuff.
Eventually, the division equipped the secretaries with Selectrics and I
grabbed an IBM Executive (that with the prop spacing) with a "normal"
font for my own use.
I had the best-looking memos in the department.
--Chuck