From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Berkeley Font Catalog
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 15:16:59 -0400 [thread overview]
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PS I should probably add a small PS on the timeline. I got the vcat stuff
from Ferin when I was still at Tektronix [where we had the two other
members of the three 'Graphics Killer-Bs' -- Kelly Booth and the late John
Beatty working with us in TekLabs during sabbaticals]. This was 2 years
before I headed down to UCB myself.
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On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 3:11 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 2:17 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I've just today secured purchase of an original 4BSD manual and
>> papers set and a copy of what I believe is the V6 papers set as well. Of
>> note amongst the tabs I could read from the pictures of the Berkeley binder
>> was a section of fonts that I don't think I've seen before named the
>> Berkeley Font Catalog. I did a bit of searching around and didn't find
>> anything matching that on first inspection re: scanned and source-available
>> BSD doc collections. Anyone got the scoop on this?
>>
> Sure
>
> The Berkeley Font Catalog was a collection of 200 bpi fonts that could be
> used with vcat - the virtual CAT/4 typesetter and old tools like some of
> the original EE cad editors like Ken Keller's and another from Tom Ferrin
> at UCSF. The bulk of them was a copy of the Hershey Fonts [
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts] and a number of fonts
> specialty fonts, such as a set for typing chess, that had been developed
> originally for the XGP at CMU, MIT, and Stanford. Between the 3 ARPAnet
> sites, there was a lot of mixing and matching. Note: I should have a Xerox
> copy of them from one of the UCB docs in my files. They are on a BSD tape,
> I would look in the contributed area, but I don't remember. There is
> likely troff input to print the catalog (using vcat), but again I am trying
> to remember where any of that was in the distribution kits.
>
> FWIW: a few months back, Rob has corrected the history that the original
> vcat(1) was Canadian in origin. I thought that Ferrin had his hand in an
> early version that came to UCB (This is likely an example of the side
> comment sometimes used, that joy peed on it to make things smell like UCB,
> as Tom was across the bay). I also thought Tom had collected much of the
> catalog originally; and while I could be smoking something here -- I seem
> to remember that he also had some sort of Stanford connection with some of
> his graphics work [the UCSF and Stanford medical schools - were doing 3D
> graphics for medical diags at some point]. Tom was a graphics guy, and I
> know he was mixed up in some of that so it would have made sense for him to
> be somehow involved. It was not for a few years later, when Barskey showed
> up at UCB that there was any serious graphics work being done -- before
> that, only ECAD tools like's Ken and later Oster's.
>
> Clem
> ᐧ
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-14 18:17 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-05-14 19:11 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-05-14 19:16 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2023-05-14 19:42 ` Rich Salz
2023-05-14 20:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-05-18 21:51 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-05-15 0:58 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-05-18 2:31 ` segaloco via TUHS
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