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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by reaperducer on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:27PM (#23168569)
My only real complaint at the time was how the "!" was displayed

Then you must have missed the atrocity that was the Commodore's @ symbol.

None of the early computers did a good job with it. I remember the Tandy machines were particularly bad.

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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by bonzini on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:06PM (#23171216)
The top and bottom halves of the CGA X character was not symmetric. It's so ugly I can picture it in my head.
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