Different font for second 1 on commodore 1571 drives (and others)

[John Robertson]

On 2022/05/05 10:26 a.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> On 2022-05-05 1:03 p.m., John Herron via cctalk wrote:
>> Someone at work pointed this out and I've never really thought about 
>> it. Is
>> anyone here aware of the decision or reason to use a different 1 
>> character
>> for the last 1 vs the first 1?
>
> Got a picture?

They may have run out of that original font if they were setting the 
type with something like Lettraset in the day.

I restore and sell the first coin operated video game - Nutting's 
Computer Space - and they mixed all sorts of fonts on the control panel. 
It was a pain to reproduce it!

John :-#)#

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