From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6151 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2023 17:44:04 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Jan 2023 17:44:04 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F95424D9; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:43:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from server907.appriver.com (server907.appriver.com [204.232.250.38]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37458424D3 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:43:48 +1000 (AEST) X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-Note-AR-ScanTimeLocal: 01/23/2023 12:44:12 PM X-Note: SecureTide Build: 11/1/2022 2:52:12 PM UTC (2.26.0.0) X-Note: Filtered by 10.246.1.77 X-Note-AR-Scan: None - PIPE Received: by server907.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 6.2.15) with PIPE id 278936842; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:44:12 -0500 Received: from [10.246.0.39] (HELO smtp.us.exg7.exghost.com) by server907.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.15) with ESMTPS id 278936817; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:44:08 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (47.46.143.102) by E19DN02C-S1E7.exg7.exghost.local (192.168.244.113) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384) id 15.2.1118.21; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:42:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:43:34 -0500 From: Brantley Coile To: Ronald Natalie , User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <20230123085833.lvxjr44d4ty2ag62@illithid> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ClientProxiedBy: E16DN62A-S1E7.exg7.exghost.local (192.168.244.233) To E19DN02C-S1E7.exg7.exghost.local (192.168.244.113) X-Rerouted-By-Exchange: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-Note-AR-ScanTimeLocal: 01/23/2023 12:44:08 PM X-Note: SecureTide Build: 11/1/2022 2:52:12 PM UTC (2.26.0.0) X-Note: Filtered by 10.246.1.77 X-Policy: coraid.com X-Primary: coraid.com@coraid.com X-Note-Sender: brantley@coraid.com X-Note-Envelope-Recip: FAILURE,DELAY, X-Note-Envelope-Recip: FAILURE,DELAY, X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note-SnifferID: 0 X-GBUdb-Analysis: Unknown X-Signature-Violations: 0-0-0-5025-c X-Note-419: 0 ms. 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On January 23, 2023 9:25:25 AM EST, Ronald Natalie = wrote: >Indeed but the output format was not too hard to decipher and we wrote dr= ivers for other things=2E > >One of the most odd projects I helped with was a program called verset wh= ich was a C/A/T type setter emulator that output to a Versetec printer plot= ter=2E >This was my friend George Toth=E2=80=99s baby=2E What he did was go dow= n to the NRL and get a complete printout of the typefaces on their C/A/T pr= inted on film at about 72pt=2E >He then cut them into individual pieces=2E He build a flying spot scan= ner out of an oscilliscoe with a photomultiplier tube in a scope camera hou= sing=2E > >Now in the building next to ours was at the time the worlds finest Scanni= ng Transmission Electron Microscope=2E It was driven by a PDP-11/20=2E = Esentially the beam scanned back and forth and there was a detected at the= bottom=2E So George, would take the drive and sense wires off the microsc= ope and connect them to the oscilloscope/camera combination=2E He=E2=80=99= d take one letter and stick it to the face of the oscilliscope=2E We woul= d then bring up the microscope software and tell it to scan a sample=2E I= t would do so loading the image into the framebuffer=2E We would then bo= ot up MiniUnix and read the data out of the framebuffer and store it on an = RK05 pack that we=E2=80=99d later take over to our main machine, the PDP-11= /45 running a full up (hacked V6) UNIX=2E > >It was probably the worlds most expensive text scanner in the world=2E = Of course, I did some favors for that department, so I got free access to t= hat machine when it wasn=E2=80=99t being used by actual microscope operator= s=2E > >------ Original Message ------ >>From "Brantley Coile" >To "G=2E Branden Robinson" >Cc tuhs@tuhs=2Eorg >Date 1/23/2023 6:49:03 AM >Subject [TUHS] Re: FD 2 > >> Original troff targeted only the C/A/T typesetter=2E >> bwc >>=20 >