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Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts

MIT Technology ReviewMay-31-2021, 13:00:00 GMT

Bruce Rosenblum switched on his Apple II, which rang out a high F note followed by the clatter of the floppy drive. After a string of thock thock keystrokes, the 12-inch Sanyo monitor began to phosphoresce. A green grid appeared, 16 units wide and 16 units tall. This was "Gridmaster," a program Bruce had cooked up in the programming language BASIC to build one of the world's first Chinese digital fonts. He was developing the font for an experimental machine called the Sinotype III, which was among the first personal computers to handle Chinese-language input and output.

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