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That's nothing, the Jaquet-Droz family were producing glyphs from mechanical analogue storage in ~1770. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM https://www.
by abainbridge 8y ago
That's nothing, the Jaquet-Droz family were producing glyphs from mechanical analogue storage in ~1770. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM
- pushpop 8y agoThat’s nothing, the Egyptians were writing glyphs to solid state analogue storage two thousand years before that. /s
- masswerk 8y agoAlso, see the use of a metal plate as a binary storage device for fonts used for the print on punch cards with the IBM key punches: https://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/ https://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/