Raster CRT Typography According to DEC

Re:Raster CRT Typography According to DEC by Vogtinator on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:29AM (#19529070)

There's a really interesting video about character generation on HP 264x series terminals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QikO0WOAGWI

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Re:Raster CRT Typography According to DEC by blattimwind on Saturday March 30, 2019 @09:49AM (#19529372)

That's nothing! Tektronix did vector fonts in the 60s using analogue ROMs.

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Re:Raster CRT Typography According to DEC by abainbridge on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:23AM (#19529541)

That's nothing, the Jaquet-Droz family were producing glyphs from mechanical analogue storage in ~1770. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM

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Re:Raster CRT Typography According to DEC by masswerk on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:09PM (#19532550)

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:

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Re:Raster CRT Typography According to DEC by pushpop on Saturday March 30, 2019 @06:30PM (#19532361)

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

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Re:Raster CRT Typography According to DEC by masswerk on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:33PM (#19532017)

Highly recommended! As are all these videos by Marc Verdiell.

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