Thank you for banner! I used the data, abliet modified, 40 years ago in 1981, for a banner program as well, on an IBM 1130 (manufactured 1972) so it could print on an 1132 line printer. The floor would vibrate when it printed those banners. I used "X" as the printed char as the 1132 did not have the # char. But those banners looked great! I wrote it in FORTRAN IV. On punched cards. I did this because from 1980-1982 I only had access to UNIX on Monday evenings from 7PM-9PM, using a DEC LA120 terminal, it was slow and never had enough ink on the ribbon. I had only 8K of core memory with only EBCIDIC uppercase so there were lots of compromises and cleverness needed - - read in a 16-bit integer as a packed two 8-bit numbers - limit the banner output to only A-Za-z0-9 !?#(a)'*+,-.= - unpack the char data into buffer and then process it. - fix the "U" charater data - find the run-lenght ecnodings that could be consoldated to save space (seeing those made me think it had to have been generated data) The program still survives here - http://ibm1130.cuzuco.com/ (with sample output runs) Also since I had to type all those numbers onto punch cards with a 029 keypunch, to speed things up I coded my own free-form atoi() equivalent in FORTRAN, reading cards, then packed two numbers into a integer, then punch out those numbers along with card ID numbers in columns 73-80 on the 1442. This was many weeks of keypunching, checking, fixing and re-keypunching. That code is here http://ibm1130.cuzuco.com/ipack.html When done the deck was around 8" or so. It took well over a minute to read in the data cards, after complition. Again thanks! Many hundreds of banners for many people were printed by this, around 2 to 3 a week, until July 1982, when that IBM was replaced by a Prime system. I still have many found memeories of that 1130. -Brian Mary Ann Horton (mah at mhorton.net) wrote: > We had vtroff at Berkeley around 1980, on the big Versatec wet plotter, > 4 pages wide. We got really good at cutting up the pages on the output. > > It used the Hershey font. It was horrible. Mangled somehow, lots of > parts of glyphs missing. I called it the "Horse Shit" font. > > I took it as my mission to clean it up. I wrote "fed" to edit it, dot by > dot, on the graphical HP 2648 terminal at Berkeley. I got all the fonts > reasonably cleaned up, but it was laborious. > > I still hated Hershey. It was my dream to get real C/A/T output at the > largest 36 point size, and scan it in to create a decent set of Times > fonts. I finally got the C/A/T output years later at Bell Labs, but > there were no scanners available to me at the time. Then True Type came > along and it was moot. > > I did stumble onto one nice rendition of Times Roman in one point size, > from Stanford, I think. I used it to write banner(6).

Thank you for banner! I used the data, abliet modified, 40 years ago in 1981, for a banner program as well, on an IBM 1130 (manufactured 1972) so it could print on an 1132 line printer. The floor would vibrate when it printed those banners. I used "X" as the printed char as the 1132 did not have the # char. But those banners looked great! I wrote it in FORTRAN IV. On punched cards. I did this because from 1980-1982 I only had access to UNIX on Monday evenings from 7PM-9PM, using a DEC LA120 terminal, it was slow and never had enough ink on the ribbon.