It could be a fun exercise to rank them all. Some of them are very idiosyncratic. Atari’s felt “right” to me then, but today ZX Spectrum’s feels much better. And VGA feels most nostalgic right now somehow.
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
One that I dreamed of *then* was Chicago.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/767062760530120704?s=21 …
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Replying to @mwichary @Bitterman59
I need to retype the hex of my first bitmap font and see what it looked likepic.twitter.com/LYot9X9Tr2
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I OCR'd it and converted from hex to dec so it'd work with my spreadsheet. Here ya go.pic.twitter.com/AVAKeUfVqt
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Oh my god, that is amazing.
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Replying to @mwichary @Bitterman59
OK! The reason I have this printout is that this font was part of my 5th grade science fair project, "Little letters: Do they matter?" The experiment was: can people read lists of words faster in capital or lower case letters?pic.twitter.com/MMReYuxXvF
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Replying to @mwichary @Bitterman59
My recollection is that reading lower case was faster, but if the text of the report survives, it's in a box at my parents'. We didn't have a printer and word processor yet (the program printout was thanks to a classmate) so I wrote it on a typewriter
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Replying to @mwichary @Bitterman59
Maybe I shouldn't be so confident that I typed it! I suppose it could have been handwritten
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Pure confidence would have been typing it all in lowercase.
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