Hi-
I did a 3x8 in Forth for the AppleII, to get 70 characters per line.
David

Barry Gershenfeld wrote:

> The year: 1977.  The hardware: KIM-1.  The application: radioteletype.
>
> That was the state of the art in personal computers [1] and
> the output was six 7-segment displays.  And so the author
> made up a character set very similar to the example posted.
> The idea was to see it work, not to present it to the general
> public.
>
> And, like Graffitti on the Palm Pilot, you could read it
> once you got used to it.
>
> [1] This is a lie because the Apple II was out.
> [?] There also was a 3x5 dot-matrix character set someone
>     made up, I think for the VIC-20, to get more characters
>     on the screen.  Same idea.
>
> Barry
>
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