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<andlabs> today's old tech:
<andlabs> the BBC didn't like the pixellated nature of digital character generators *in 1970* so they made their own analog one
<qu1j0t3> well
<qu1j0t3> the thing is
<qu1j0t3> oh, i think i've seen this in use
<qu1j0t3> what a great find andlabs
<andlabs> thank sikthehedgehog
<qu1j0t3> come to think of it
<qu1j0t3> we had a very old character generator doing our train displays in my hometown
<qu1j0t3> in the 80s
<qu1j0t3> but it may have been digital. pretty sure it rendered a decent Helvetica
<qu1j0t3> it wasn't retired till relatively recently
<qu1j0t3> i wonder if any good photos exist of it... should be on flickr
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