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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:

https://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/

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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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