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I 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
by kragen 11mo ago
I 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.