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Re: looking for ASCII bitmaps of the alphabet

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From: Leila Burrell-Davis
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 15:28
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apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca (Vince Pugliese) writes:

| i was hoping to find ASCII bitmaps for the alphabet
| any type face will do.
| essentially what i am looking for is something like
| this:
|
| ----*****-----
| ------*-------
| ------*-------
| ------*-------
| ------*-------

How about looking in the back of a dot matrix printer manual? Those
I have for an Epson FX80 and Taxan/Kaga KP-810 have such bitmaps in.
I don't know if they are copyright or anything.

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From: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis)
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Subject: Re: looking for ASCII bitmaps of the alphabet
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