I'd like to talk to a real expert in the shapes on tracking the copying over time.
Years and years ago I remember watching typefaces get hand traced and then edited on in-house software running on a Tektronix storage tube.
Years and years ago I remember watching typefaces get hand traced and then edited on in-house software running on a Tektronix storage tube.
You saw people using that?
I too was taught to use ed at university and don't consider it time wasted, but I'm well chuffed that better stuff (macs) were coming in then. I actually had the questionable good fortune to use ed on a paper teletype for an hour. Then, staring down at it, my neck cricked and I had to stop.
AIUI ed (or something simpler) on paper teletypes was what original unix might have been written on - good times!
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I'd be open to any other high resolution suggestions for that era.
Pretty sure I've seen it in some 80s' movies, though probably mostly for the atmosphere.
Modern visions of futuristic tech are a riot. Straight green lines as wireframes on a black background. I even saw that on a tube advert a couple of years ago. The monitors were green because long-persistence phosphor happened to be that colour (though orange was available if rarely seen), straight lines because that was easier for the hardware even though curves were possible just too expensive, and green on black because early scan-line monitors distorted badly when the majority of the screen was bright.
At least three tech failings became iconic 'look of the future'. That's hilarious.
I watched the original blade runner recently and right at the start a company logo of tree is drawn slowly in green on black. I said to myself - that's done on an apple 2! It must have been impressive at the time.
At the time I had no idea where these two choices came from, though of course I've seen lots of green in the movies. Come to think of it, in life I'm more familiar with the idea of black-and-white displays, having used such a TV with my NES and having heard of a web designer using a b&w monitor.
Upd: from pictures, it seems Bloomberg had phosphor displays in either green or orange in the 80s (CRT, I hope), so the current orange may be a big nod to those times.