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The MIT Lisp Machine source tree contains Times Roman and Helvetica fonts dating from 1977.
by rjsw 12y ago
The MIT Lisp Machine source tree contains Times Roman and Helvetica fonts dating from 1977.
- Curmudgel 12y agoI didn't mean to suggest that the Star was the first commercial computer that offered multiple fonts. I picked the Star because it came before the Macintosh there were good pictures of it available. I believe that the Alto also had a font that set a typeface in cursive, and even came with its own font editor, but I'd have to look harder to find videos or pictures of that.
- rjsw 12y agoI think you were correct to identify the Star (or at least the prototype of it), The article on the history of Smalltalk that was posted yesterday gives a date of 1972 for the first Xerox PARC font editor.