Tag Archives: 1980s

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.

Tatung Einstein (1984) and its rather special character set. Also, don’t miss the active Geocities-style site tatungeinstein.co.uk. Photos from here and here.

Animated Madonna ANSI by MCL (aka Michael C. Ling), circa 1989. Found by Noel Gamba, posted on giphy. More MCL at sixteencolors.net.

カンニング大作戦, an early 80’s game for MZ-80 by Hudson. Full video here. More posts from this game here.

The font of the portable TRS-80 Model 100 (1983).

WarGames (1983) uses what looks like a custom font to display thermonuclear text mode graphics. It was made on a CompuPro 8/16, although an IMSAI 8080 is used in the movie (apparently for sale for $25,000). Read more, see more.

Videotex character sets 1983, 1987, 1993. Seems like these would have required hi-res or vector fonts?

The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.