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2018-04-28

1700s, character set, font, japan.

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Jindai moji, supposedly used in Japan in the 17th century, via @tkasasagi.

2018-04-22

2010s, 2017, character set, terminal, unicode.

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This recent Unicode-proposal about 8-bit character sets is a great initiative, although it only includes platforms that were popular in USA and UK. For now. ;) The uncredited PETSCII Darth Vader is by Ailadi, btw.

2018-04-15

character set, font, japan, MZ-700, SharpSCII.

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Sharp MZ-700 character sets (Japanese first, European second), from sharpmz.org. See sharpscii graphics here.

2018-03-28

1980s, 1984, character set.

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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.

2018-03-13

character set, font.

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If you delete all fonts in XP, you’re greeted with nonsense like this afterwards.

Dingbats are forever. via WinWorld

2018-03-10

1980s, 1983, character set, font, TRS-80.

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

2018-03-01

2010s, 2018, animation, character set, font, game, terminal, usa.

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Terminal Rain, a textmode game with a custom font, developed by Jackson Lango. (Twitter)

2018-02-02

character set, font.

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Four fonts: AT&T 3B2, a Compaq Portable III, a LED scrolling sign, and a Waters 600E pump controller. Extracted by fuckyeahfortran , via.

2018-01-31

1980s, character set, font, resolution, videotex.

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

2018-01-29

1970s, 1979, africa, character set.

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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.

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