At 05:46 PM 7/18/99 -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
>I recall that someone had dug up an ASR33 truetype font. If you know where
>it is, please let me know, I can't find it in the archives.
It's "Teleprinter", I got it from <
http://hreflinks.com/fon3page.htm>.
I contacted the author, Mark Zanzig of Munich, Germany,
<100541.3641_at_compuserve.com>. He wrote:
>Sorry, I got carried away... I created the font using Fontographer 3.5.2
>for Windows which still sits on my shelf waiting for some work. As to the
>original fonts, I found an old BASIC tutorial (from 1973) that had program
>listings with - guess what? - right, loads of Teletype ASR 33 letters. I
>put in hard work and some finetuning... Voila, il-y-a les fonts.
He also welcomed the idea of it becoming a "freeware" font, in terms
of people volunteering to improve it.
- John
Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 09:59:44 BST