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I use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".

I remember back in the early 2000s, having a QBASIC window open was enough to make most people say "you broke it". A blue screen covered in IBM VGA was firmly established as a bad sign by that point.

Actually, I thought that Hercules monochrome was a novel improvement on CGA.

I never saw the IBM monochrome that shipped with the original PC. I certainly saw a lot of CGA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

My childhood:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/FPGA-FDEDL.j...

And before that: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html