On 05/11/2017 07:45 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > Computer drawn characters are older than that; a good example of > vector drawn characters is the CDC 6600 console, from around 1964. > Or the plotter library documented in report MR 73 from the > Mathematical Center in Amsterdam, April 1965. Both are simpler > letter shapes than in Hershey's document.
CDC, for a time, standardized on a variation of OCR-A for their "official" correspondence typefont. I used an Olivetti typewriter in my office at CDC for just that--I hated the look of the stuff. Eventually, the division equipped the secretaries with Selectrics and I grabbed an IBM Executive (that with the prop spacing) with a "normal" font for my own use. I had the best-looking memos in the department. --Chuck
