- Masswerk, I agree. I’ve known Marcin for a long time and just sent him a message asking why he didn’t link to your original page. It may have been just an oversight.
- splorp 23 days agoMarcin has updated the link to the “Punched-Card Typography” page and added a proper attribution as well.reply
- DVT also stands for Development Verification Test. I own a number of Newton DVT and EVT (Engineering Verification Test) devices collected over the years.
- Good to know. I took jt to mean a pre production unit with last chance to fix any glaring problems before you stamp out a couple 100k or million of something. I was with an org that had several thousand “SLQ Anywhere” inside cover sheets printed for documentation. Sigh.
Also. Very jealous about your collection. Protype hardware like that is always fun to see what could have been …
- This site was put together by a typeface designer friend of mine, so it’s no wonder the fonts are described so distinctly.
- I know, right? It pressed a lot of my buttons.
- I saw a connection with using a hex editor to dive into understanding file formats. Perhaps the association was a bit loose.
- Thank you, John.
The best of the season to everyone, regardless of how you celebrate this time of year.
- +1 It would add another method of discovery.
- But every once in a while, something that you discover at the bottom of one of those holes ends up being very rewarding.
This article is an example of that.
- Nice work.
I wish more sites took linkrot seriously like this.
- Of course this is retrocomputing … have you tried running current versions of Safari or Chrome under macOS 10.7? They simply won’t work. The speed at which obsolescence and lack of support occurs in regards to hardware and software is increasing. Twelve year old software is ancient, especially in the eyes of Apple.
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