Tag Archives: tools


Sinclair ZX81 character set and font, via.

Casio FX-700P Programmable Calculator (1982) Character set.

Sinclair ZX80 character set, including nonprintable characters (shown as questionmarks) and BASIC keywords.

Braille typesetter, photographed by T Dog, 2009.

All 128 states of a seven-segment display. Or should we call it a font?

via Wikipedia

Next generation Perkins Brailler and a train.

Build your own teletext decoder published by ETI magazine (Electronics Today International), July 1979. From here.

From Andy DeckASCII jam (2001). Online software to make and publish anonymous ASCII art. it’s still being used today, as you can see here.

2024-update: After 2014 there was no more activity

Icontext by Andy Deck, 1999. Online tool where each ASCII-chracter represents a colour, so you can type colours. Try it out!

Pictex (1988), a videotex graphic editor by Serge Villa.