Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: The Mythical \"X on a Dumb Terminal\" server, part 53 Summary: reality is real Message-ID: <10342@ncc.Nexus.CA> Date: 17 Jul 88 05:33:44 GMT References: <16524@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Organization: Nexus Computing Inc. Lines: 26 In article <16524@brl-adm.ARPA> valdis@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu writes: > [ ... ] OK - all you OLD TIMERS out there - has ANYBODY ever seen a terminal >that gave you a ** two by four ** character matrix?? *AND* downloadable fonts? >*AND* didn't have a video generator that forced one blank pixel between chars >and two between rows like a lot do, so you have all-points-addressable? OLD timer, indeed! :-) A few years back, I had the misfortune of owning a Kurzweil 4000 OCR system. The operator console would display the text as it was recognized, with questionable characters highlighted. You could get a graphic display of the character as it appeared on the page via one of the function keys. I discovered (accidently) one day that the system displayed this graphic by mapping the raster image into a series of ASCII characters representing the various combinations of "bitmap cells." I don't know how many fonts this took (or what the cell size was) however they had to have mapped the entire range of cells in, as the image was a complete one in all respects. The terminal was manufactured by Microterm. I don't know if Microterm or Xerox were responsible for the modifications... -- {alberta,pyramid,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA