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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 19 Sep 1998.
Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype

Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype

jfo...@threedee.com wrote:
> 
> I'm searching for a PostScript font to reproduce the look of
> old Teletypes, like the ASR-33 used as a terminal for computers
> in the 1970s.
.....
> I'm looking for any sort of font like this, or a tool that could
> produce it, assuming I can scan examples of actual Teletype printing.

Buy me a new ribbon for my KSR-33 and tell me what you want printed.....
It's been a while but I think it's still 'working order'.....

Also, seems to me there were at least a half-dozen fonts in the manual.
Not sure if the differences were 'special characters' only, or what.

Bill
Tucson

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From: bill_h <bil...@sunsouthwest.com>
Subject: Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype
Date: 1998/09/19
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