Hello Bill (cc: list).

> Does anybody happen to have a standard 5x7 ("old style") font in
> binary form somewhere?  (mine is on... Um...  Punched cards.  I
> carefully saved them from a college project because I never wanted to
> type them in again.

  Mine is probably on a 720k floppy in FLEX09 format.  Regrettably,
the machine to read this is presently (hopefully not permanently) dead.

  *However*!

  The code you want is IIRC embedded in the CGA driver of a PC.  If you
use a "visualiser" utility (write one!), you could probably find it.

> Note that you can save significant rom space for a full character set
> (at the expense of code to extract the rows or columns in the
> appropriate format) by lying the bitmap on its side (5 bytes for 5
> columns, 8 bits wide.)

  Yes, I had a use for that once.  Can't recall what.  Oh yes!  A dot-
matrix printer contains the code in this form.
--
  Cheers,
        Paul B.