Marcus -
Sadly, and this may make you choke on whatever you are drinking at the
moment, so put it down, what prompted me to think of this (aside from
Doug's reference to the Trash80 era) was that I recently found some
curled faded sheets of dry-silver process paper (most likely FROM a
4631) in one of my stashes of nostalgic documents which I *think* were
originally printouts of my junior project in computer graphics where I
"invented" a cursive alphabet (stroke) which required a hash table
(straight out of Knuth) to look up appropriate "joinery" between various
Cap and lower case letters.
I was so excited when Knuth (himself) came out (several years later)
with Metafont... Does the new generation even *know* of Knuth's work
before TeX? I never hear reference even to Metafont, much less his
seminal work in algorithms and data structures.
- Steve
On 2/4/13 4:11 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
this was written on my Tektronix 4013 (APL keyboard) storage vector
graphics terminal with ASCII and EBCIDIC emulators and an awesome
version of Battlezone running from my CP/M machine. Shall I typeset
a complex equation and take a polaroid of it for you?
Now don't freak out, but you may have to upgrade to MS-DOS to use
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dvgtk
but otherwise just print it out on your 4631..
http://w140.com/kurt/tek_new_products_mar-apr_1975.pdf
Marcus
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