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[68.12.97.90]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id la7-20020a056871410700b00222a9d33b98sm556793oab.11.2024.03.23.09.36.55 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 23 Mar 2024 09:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:36:54 -0500 From: "G. Branden Robinson" To: groff@gnu.org Message-ID: <20240323163654.pzf75hrzykhabyw7@illithid> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hoxnkhd3mcioukfe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: AYQS3UXKS4VH7A2KCQXQIUJI43LLDYEM X-Message-ID-Hash: AYQS3UXKS4VH7A2KCQXQIUJI43LLDYEM X-MailFrom: g.branden.robinson@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: TUHS main list X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: the Courier font family and nroff history List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --hoxnkhd3mcioukfe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [looping the groff list back in] At 2024-03-23T11:37:51-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > "BI" fonts can, it seems, largely be traced to the impact > > of PostScript >=20 > There was no room for BI on the C/A/T. It appeared in > troff upon the taming of the Linotron 202, just after v7 > and five years before PostScript. Thanks, Doug! I'm pleased to be corrected here. > > Seventh Edition Unix shipped a tc(1) command to help you preview > > your troff output with that device before you spent precious > > departmental money sending it to the actual typesetter. >=20 > Slight exaggeration. It wasn't money, It was time and messing > with film cartridges, chemicals, and wet prints. You could buy a > lot of typesetter film and developer for the price of a 4014. The scars on my waist from crashing dot-com startup "belt-tightening" must be showing...the great thing about recurring expenses, no matter how small, is that you can issue edicts about them and Be Seen To Be Doing Something... One source says that the Tektronix 4014 listed (at some point during its sales life) at $8,450, though the Computer Museum of Amsterdam has much higher estimates (albeit without tying their dollar figures to a calendar year, which increases the fuzz even more). Still, USD 8,450 in 1979 is over USD 36,000 today.[1] Do you happen to remember _when_ the CSRC got its 4014? About what year? Did Joe Ossanna have access to one early enough to use it in aid of troff development? (I don't see a man page for tc(1) in the Sixth Edition manual.) Something else I'm not clear on is whether staff had Teletype terminals in their personal offices (before the Blit), or if people _had_ to go to the Unix room to use the system. (Steve Johnson has a wonderful story of how DMR faithfully used a Model 37 at home long after its vogue years until mechanical wear combined with the Unix CLI's unforgiving nature finally proved too much even for him...)[2] Even after reading many reminiscences of (1)127 life, including Kernighan's recent memoir, I admit that my fanciful reconstructions of it are likely as naturalistic as that time Banksy took over the Simpsons' couch gag to depict daily life in Korean animation studios... As always I appreciate your patience with the febrile notions of a guy who Wasn't There. Regards, Branden [1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ [2] https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/message/= ESWNMKHN2P2H54GRFSWYPOXQ4GJIPSCY/ --hoxnkhd3mcioukfe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEh3PWHWjjDgcrENwa0Z6cfXEmbc4FAmX/BR4ACgkQ0Z6cfXEm bc6CUA/+LuKxoIEv7R7crPUmZtA/2cTCpJXY3+JzHLfXBub5oeLdneShzBCK74LH h8dJ7tQroeOjecXv/4j6bvc0j5JmLHtk9xyglNX+ks40Qpz9nlgQ3JYV+UUGKlDs On2v5ydmll7NQEhdG9JB7nM+waPK1pE5At4QwoBrmGlQmcLsE4BqtMy5g3a8C2Gc Z8ws+XbK2c2udZzz3SkikNI7yozAjxMJw6k9oyhF9v7jJoiVmy0UaGK96xo+86xg gv9nVEDu0jGERo/lCdT5+BJNs7P005duYgM7P2oy9KmQAvQKAmzUZCuJ7y/YlLBd n64DwyFnmM98cVjmGGDxQl+QaCIExoKW7TizcV3qG3LoTknGqPj5GKFutr1x35S2 EYJEjZv3LzifUZVOh1T26FGmGGXwJNOhEycnSWLn7kZcUuE9FYg7AQ7rm/Oe3PkI XC2V0JVOkDgDhwU1QaGyFg+bAxWXilQIWOfUDc7N9vg32phI34utBTWUJgNPg56K /Bapee05CZxW8ETfdl1w73ie5y9Xs67j+T40ZaXx/peglNt97UfB32eg8tdoLWh1 RXv+QdkEpI9WpAHZp0lSdM+tC6JnkMZKkBDZtn3xnKwULYKfLJ5kKhBACXAwrImO qiX1SMi8EE04u5sQLTPqRBe79Zl5KdgQENlnECdtl8teVc1JL3w= =/o6X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hoxnkhd3mcioukfe--