Carey,

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:43:02 -0500, Carey Fisher - NCS wrote:

> Back in 1973, at Georgia Tech (USA), a buddy and I wrote programs in Fortran
> and Algol that
> would print a banner on computer printout paper.  We'd submit the programs
> on Hollerith card decks
> with the Data cards being the message we wanted printed.  Each letter in the
> banner would
> print in a 5x7 matrix using the same letter for each dot.  So, the letter A
> would print with
> letter "A"s, the B would print with the letter "B", etc.

There's a coincidence - I wrote a program to do this in Fortran, in about 1975!  I was an operator on an IBM 
370/135 (at the lower end of medium sized mainframes at the time), and did this just for the fun of it during 
quiet night shifts.  It was also useful for printing posters...  I tried various formats and the 5x7 matrix 
"looked right" when printed on a line-printer, and gave 16 characters across, 6 lines per page.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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