We Saw a Chicken …

A rendering of a 9-pin “Near Letter Quality” dot matrix font.

A rendering of a 9-pin dot matrix font intended for OCR use, specified in FIPS PUB 129 / ANSI X3.111-1986 “Optical Character Recognition (OCR) — Matrix Character Sets for OCR-MA” (github mirror: scruss/OCRmA: 9-pin dot matrix font based on FIPS PUB 129 /…

My NanoLeaf NanoLight LED bulb from 2013 finally gave up the ghost: or did it …?

I have always meant to do more with the idea of Re-creating RAND’s ‘A Million Random Digits’ but it’s a lot of effort for very little return.

A rendering of a 7-pin dot matrix font, as used by the Epson MX-70 reduced-cost printer from the mid-1980s.

Based on E73 from a couple of days ago, this is extended for full ASCII coverage: Design Size The 12 point design size is meant to reproduce 10 characters per inch horizontally, and six lines per inch vertically.

new dot matrix font, created from the 1973 ECMA-42 standard

a system update made such nonsensical noises that poetry was the only recourse I had available

I polled Mastodon people a few weeks back: Twice as many people said their home computer’s BASIC did something illogical as said it did the right thing.