[GreenKeys] TTY Fonts on Linux Box

[Ralph Mowery]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tony.podrasky" <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>
To: "Green Keys" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 5:03 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] TTY Fonts on Linux Box


> GA OMs;
>
> Here's a couple examples of what the Teletype font
> looks like on 2 of my Linux boxes.
>
> Both machines use the same font - but the desktop has
> "font-rendering" built-in and cleans up the way the
> letters appear.
>
> The laptop gives a (as the British would say) "GOOD SHOW"!
> of what a well-loved but tired ol' 15 prints like.
>
> As I mentioned several threads back, when I loaded this
> font I was ridiculing the person (in thoughts - not
> on-line) and his poor ability to forge a font. As Luke
> Skywalker said when he saw the millennium Falcon
> "Whut a PIECE of JUNK!"
>
> But, one day, when I was watching my program run, and
> day-dreaming, I realized what a "work of art" this font
> was! The guy really NAILED a 15 (at least, like the
> one I cut my teeth on back in the late '60s!
>
> I hope the 2 JPGs get thru.
> Since Green-Keys doesn't send a copy to the poster,
> would someone send me an e-mail letting me know if
> this post has 2 viewable JPGs attached.
>
> No, I don't mind if I get several responses. I'd rather
> get LOTS telling me that it was OK than none at all.
>
> UE,
> K2EAA - TONY
> NNNN
> ZCZC
>

Not bad except for the number of charticers on the screen.  One has 64 and 
the other 74 if I counted right and each line ends exectally on the end of 
the 'paper'.  That probably would never hapen with a real machine.