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blattimwind
on March 30, 2019
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Raster CRT Typography According to DEC
That's nothing! Tektronix did vector fonts in the 60s using analogue ROMs.
abainbridge
on March 30, 2019
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That's nothing, the Jaquet-Droz family were producing glyphs from mechanical analogue storage in ~1770.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM
masswerk
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Also, see the use of a metal plate as a binary storage device for fonts used for the print on punch cards with the IBM key punches:
https://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/
pushpop
on March 30, 2019
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That’s nothing, the Egyptians were writing glyphs to solid state analogue storage two thousand years before that. /s
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