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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: 7-segment LCD
Message-ID: <1875@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 16:41:11 EST
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1875
Posted: Fri Jan  9 16:41:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 06:28:18 EST
References: <668@instable.UUCP>
Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments
Lines: 48
Summary: ancient history

_Design_ featured this 7-stroke alphabet around 1972:

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|  | |            | |    |    |    |            | |    |    |  |
 --   --   --   --   --   --        --             --           
|  | |  | |    |  | |    |    |  | |  |    | |  | |  | |    |  |
      --   --   --   --        --        --   --        --


           --   --                                              
          |  | |  |      |    |         |  | |  | |  | |  |    |
 --   --   --   --   --   --   --             --   --   --   -- 
|  | |  | |       | |       | |    |  | |  | |  | |  |    | |   
      --                  --   --   --   --   --        --   -- 


 --        --   --        --   --   --   --   --
|  |    |    |    | |  | |    |       | |  | |  |    
           --   --   --   --   --        --   --      
|  |    | |       |    |    | |  |    | |  |    |    |
 --        --   --        --   --        --   --   


                                    --   --   --
   |                             |    | |       |
 --   --   --                       --
   |                   | |  |    | |    |       |
           --   --             --        --   --


It must be art; it's not pretty!  (A few months later I implemented
this on a Cyber driving a Calcomp roll plotter.  I've still got the
source somewhere ... )

If you think this is bad, the authors also proposed a "simplified"
4-stroke alphabet:


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     |       | |      |    | |  |    | |    |  | |  | |  | |
 --   --   --            --             --   --        --        --

a    ckqx dpb  e   fv   gj   h    iy   l    m    n    owu  r    sz   t
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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