Modem Computer Tag Font

[Slappy]

Somebody on one of my Mac boards found an old modem signal carrier thingy and it has this tag on it:



Anybody seen a font like that around?

Here's the whole unit:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/430620/Acoustic_Coupler.jpg

[dubstep]

I doubt you'll find that exact font.

Here are some similar fonts: Data 70, Countdown, Bitwise

Ad from 1978 Computerworld Magazine:


Cool piece of equipment

[DigiCorn]

I had this setup as a kid, sans the modem. I think my parents paid over $1,000 for all this stuff in 1980

[Farabomb]

Do you want to play a game?

[t-pat]

I had this setup as a kid, sans the modem. I think my parents paid over $1,000 for all this stuff in 1980

don't know what makes me more jealous, the fact that a) you had a computer in 1980, or b) you had parents, or c) they actually had $1000 that they didn't already blow on drugs and hookers.

[DigiCorn]

Actually, I think I got it more in like '81 or '82. We got it at a store called "Consumers." It was a weird store. They had like 50 products only - whatever was trendy at the time, and each one was mounted to the wall, and under it was a number. You walked in, looked at the wall, went up to the register and said, "give me a number 32."

We got just the computer part at first - that was around $300-400. The Speech Synthesizer was free - you had to buy a game and then mail in the UPC code to get it. The "box" portion was the big money item. It was around $500, and had an RS232 controller "card" (needed for the modem and/or printer), and a 5.25" floppy disk drive, and the disk controller "card." The "cards" were about 6" tall, about 8" deep and about an inch and a half thick. Each "card" weighed a couple pounds. The box had the noisiest fan ever.

The TI-99 4a was the first computer on the retail market to have a 16K of memory (most at that time had 4-8k). Laster, I did a bunch of chores and saved allowance to spend $99 (was originally $199) on a 32K expansion card.

My parents weren't rich, but the school I went to had that same computer, so they thought I should have one at home too. They never did any drugs, but my Dad was an alchy. He liked Gin.

[Joe]

I had a 5.25" disk drive for my old TRS-80. That thing was a large rectangular box that weighed about 50 lbs. I think it cost me about $300.00 at the time.

[Joe]

Here it is!

[DigiCorn]

I thought you had better technology at your shop, Joe. You still using that old thing? 

[gnubler]

I remember those from junior high.

Our "computer science" class was sooo freakin' boring in 1988. Nice monochrome screen and entering line commands. :yawn:

[Joe]

I thought you had better technology at your shop, Joe. You still using that old thing? 

Only the latest for us. Only takes 3,401 5.25" floppies to hold 1 job.

[Slappy]

I doubt you'll find that exact font.

Here are some similar fonts: Data 70, Countdown, Bitwise

NIce! Data 70 & Bitwise are pretty close - good eye! 

[Diddler]

I had a 5.25" disk drive for my old TRS-80. That thing was a large rectangular box that weighed about 50 lbs. I think it cost me about $300.00 at the time.

Same here Joe, but I had the deluxe twin 5.25 model.  Ahh the good ole days. 

[frailer]

I had a 5.25" disk drive for my old TRS-80. That thing was a large rectangular box that weighed about 50 lbs. I think it cost me about $300.00 at the time.

Same here Joe, but I had the deluxe twin 5.25 model.  Ahh the good ole days. 

Though I hate banks, along with most, I harbour a tiny soft spot for the bank that refused me a loan in '83 to buy an Osborne 'luggable'. So I could  'learn computing and a bit of programming'.   :embarrassed:  Am forever indebted to them.    :laugh: