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<p>As I fuzzily recall, I put together the original Berkeley Font
Catalog from various sources (such as Stanford's more complete
catalog) to show what we had available on the 36" Versatec at
Berkeley. Looking at what's in 4.1BSD vol 2C, I suspect somebody
polished it up.</p>
<p>Most of my effort went into fed, a font editor that worked on
Berkeley's flakey HP 2648 graphics terminal, and editing the
Hershey fonts, which were seriously mangled, into a
semi-presentable typeface. I could only dream of having Times
Roman available.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/14/23 12:11, Clem Cole wrote:<br>
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2:17 PM segaloco via TUHS <<a href="mailto:tuhs@tuhs.org"
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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
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Berkeley Font Catalog was a collection of 200 bpi fonts
that could be used with vcat - the virtual </span> <span
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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 [<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts</a>]
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. </span></div>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. </span></div>
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