> i found it by way of this amusing tool which executes google searches by > teletype: > > <http://www.masswerk.at/google60/>
I love that! B > On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, "steve harley" <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > > on 2014-02-22 11:00 Ann Sanfedele wrote >> and I could. I considered making it without the type (I tried to make it >> look >> as much as what I remember the "font" to be when "punching" the holes in >> photoshop). > > it's a fun concept, but i don't think that font is accurate; looks like > American Typewriter, and i remember a more stripped down typeface on punch > cards; i tried to find you a more accurate typeface, and came up with this: > > <http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/webfonts/index-en.html#fonts_set> > > that is a large group of fonts, and you may have trouble unpacking the > download - contact me offlist if you'd like me to send the most appropriate > fonts > > i found it by way of this amusing tool which executes google searches by > teletype: > > <http://www.masswerk.at/google60/> > > > i didn't use punch cards much - at university i was lucky to plunge directly > into interactive CRT terminal use in 1978; on the side i had a research > assistantship with Arthur Swersey, a disarmingly non-conformant biz school > professor who wouldn't blink when i showed up at his office in bare feet and > cutoffs; one of my many tasks with Prof. Swersey was to set up some SIMULA > jobs to run on an IBM 360; i think that, about 1981, was my only contact with > punch cards, and it felt pretty old-fashioned > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
