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Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Bryan Wu
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 01:24
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In <405dck$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:
>In article <3vrjla$pa9@selway.umt.edu>, maynard@selway.umt.edu (Robert L Maynard) writes:
>|> In article <hotelca-0308950247270001@192.0.2.1>,
>|> Helvetica is found in Adobe Type 1 collections that pre-date True Type.
>And was included with the original LaserWriter.  Circa 1985.  "Font
>Substitution" substituted the helvetica characters for Geneva, but
>still used Geneva spacing and looked awful.

Guys, Helvetica the font has been around since at least the 1930's.

Bryan
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From: bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 8 Aug 1995 21:24:09 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <danpop.807310991@rscernix> <3vo2eo$3hp@sundog.tiac.net> <hotelca-0308950247270001@192.0.2.1> <3vrjla$pa9@selway.umt.edu> <405dck$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com>