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There were really only teletypes and dot-matrix printers available at that point. Look at how "effective immediately" is underlined, and how inconsistent the l
by mceachen 1y ago
There were really only teletypes and dot-matrix printers available at that point.
Look at how "effective immediately" is underlined, and how inconsistent the letterforms are.
Also, 1980 is 5 years before the Apple LaserWriter, 11 years before TrueType, and 15+ years before "grunge" fonts were a thing.
- II2II 1y agoThe article mentions daisy wheel printers directly, so they must have been available. Daisy wheel printers existed to produce higher quality (text) output than what you would get from a dot matrix printer. There were many other types of impact printers that produced full letters (or even full lines of text) in one go, though I don't know how often they were connected to microcomputers.
- jsrfca8 1y agoTo do letter Letter quality back then could also be done with a daisy wheel printer.
- Hizonner 1y agoI was around "at that point", and there were a bewildering number of printer types, including daisy wheels and things that were basically converted typewriters, either of which could have produced output like that. Some daisy wheel drivers would vary the spacing to "kern" the letters, but some wouldn't. If they didn't, what you got looked basically exactly like what you'd get on a typewriter.