Tag Archives: 1970s

The three TRS-80 models had no less than 22 different fonts in total (top image), available in Rebecca Bettencourt’s font pack Another Mans Treasure. Shown here are the international fonts from TRS-80 Model 4, and Rebecca’s additions in the last image.

African 8-bit ASCII, or more correctly: ISO 6438, first registerred in 1979. This was based on a Western attempt to create a phonetic alphabet for many African languages. ISO 6438 was rarely used.

Article in Popular Electronics 1974 to build an ASCII-compatible keyboard for 40 USD. Posted on archive.org as Apple documentation, so this was presumably used for the Apple I.

From a 1975 book called Happenting on Travel On, written by Carole Spearin McCauley. Features computer generated text, text graphics, source code, etc. via James Ryan

Typewriter works by various artists, taken from Alan Riddell’s book Typewriter Art, 1975. Free pdf at Monoskop.

h/t prostheticknowledge

Typewriter works by various artists, taken from Alan Riddell’s book Typewriter Art, 1975. Free pdf at Monoskop.

LetraTime, a German magazine from 1975. This cover won ITC’s first Upper and Lower Case International Typographics Competition.

More info. h/t: Tim Koch

2024-update: Christof Gassner seems to the be designer.


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Carl Andre (Yucatan) typewriter poems, 1972.  Will be featured in The Drawing Center’s upcoming Drawing Time Reading Time exhibition curated by Claire Gilman.

The Crolux Complex in Barlad, Romania. Designed by B.A.C.U in the 1970s? source

Daphil 2, 1979. Mixed media on metal by Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski. h/t Tim Koch. via