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abainbridge on March 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raster CRT Typography According to DEC

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 on March 30, 2019 | [–]

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 | [–]

That’s nothing, the Egyptians were writing glyphs to solid state analogue storage two thousand years before that. /s

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