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An incredible machine. I didn't remember this one had a dot-matrix font - later ones had a vector-based one. I'd love to see the definitions for this latter scr
by rbanffy 1y ago
An incredible machine. I didn't remember this one had a dot-matrix font - later ones had a vector-based one. I'd love to see the definitions for this latter screen font.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoCheck out HP plotter fonts from the 1980's. You should have seen the digitizing tables 4 feet square, and the oversized plotters that were surplus from oil companies after the oil price crash at the end of 1981.
- kragen 1y agoI don't know if anyone has dumped the Tek font ROMs, but the IMLAC Scroll Saver tty emulator has been preserved, and I converted its typewriter font to Hershey font format. Scroll Saver disassembly: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/f6408e16cb1aaf7f2583c02cdca506f2fe24b993/src/imsrc/ssvchr.22 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/f6408e16cb1aaf7f2583c02cd... My kludge to parse it into Hershey JHF format: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/imlacparse.py http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/imlacparse.py The resulting Hershey font: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/imlac-pds-1-ssvchr.22.jhf http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/imlac-pds-1-ssvchr.22.j... Its appearance rendered: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/smolhershey-imlac.png http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/smolhershey-imlac.png My 400-byte BSD-licensed C library for using Hershey fonts: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/smolhershey.md.html http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/smolhershey.md.html If someone does get the Tek font, I'd love to do the same thing with it.