5 ms·
Thank you! All of this talk about teletypes, no one is mentioning how hard it would be to draw lowercase letters, monospaced, in an 8x8 grid.
by xsmasher 3y ago
Thank you! All of this talk about teletypes, no one is mentioning how hard it would be to draw lowercase letters, monospaced, in an 8x8 grid.
- colanderman 3y agoThe Apple //e did just fine with 7×8 character grid. Even had descenders: https://urbanfonts-files.s3.amazonaws.com/samples/12479/b8bd44f2ebdba8cd7d89ba1cf403fd6c.jpg https://urbanfonts-files.s3.amazonaws.com/samples/12479/b8bd...
- tdeck 3y agoBecause almost all the early home computers supported lowercase. https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts/ https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys... The only notable exception I can think of is the ZX-80/81 which had notoriously rudimentary output capabilities because it was designed to be so cheap.
- flohofwoe 3y agoThe KC85/2 (https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc852.html https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc852.html) also only supported uppercase, AFAIK mainly because there wasn't enough room left in ROM for the lowercase characters. The followup model KC85/3 (https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc853.html https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc853.html) added the lowercase characters though, and the KC85/4 changed the font for better readability (but IMHO aesthetically less pleasing than the KC85/3 font): https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc854.html https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc854.html ...and when connecting such a machine to a TV via antenna input, reading the KC85/3 lowercase characters was indeed a bit of guesswork.
- tdeck 3y agoWow, an old computer I've never heard of before. I love it!