Fancy Font?

[Bob Bradlee]

Fancy font was a wonderful program, I wrote and formatted an
80+ page book [Programming Autocad] in the early 80's using it
running on an SD systems S100 Z80 system running MP/M before moving to 
a 5 slot PC.

Are there any SD system people lurking here ?

The first time I saw HTML I remarked to a coworker that it had to have been based 
on fancy font. Does anyone know, was there a connection between them ?

Thanks for the flash back...

Bob Bradlee

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:14:12 -0800 (PST), Al Hartman wrote:

>Anyone ever use this?

>That ad for the Zebra Disk System a few posts back,
>was done on an Imsai Computer using CP/M 2.2 with a
>Z80 Board in it.

>I processed the text using WordStar and put in
>commands VERY similar to HTML to output text to an
>FX-80 F/T Printer with a program called Fancy Font...

>Which I guess would be called a RIP, but it wasn't
>PostScript.

>Later, we moved to the IBM PC Version of this program
>I ran on either an Eagle XT Clone, or an XT Clone I
>was using.

>Further on... I was using an Atari-ST Upgraded to
>2.5mb with a Magic Sac Cartridge (Mac 512 Emulator) a
>20mb Atari Disk Drive, and Epstart to get my Epson
>FX-80 F/T to emulate an Imagewriter using Adobe Type
>Manager for better font handling.

>THOSE were the days... When squeezing "Letter Quality"
>out of old Dot Matrix Printers was FUN!!!

>I remember drooling over Don Lancaster's articles that
>married an Apple Laserwriter Controller Board to an HP
>LaserJet. I ALWAYS wanted one of those. Never did it.

>Now, I have SEVERAL LaserJet IIIP printers, the Adobe
>Postscript Cartridge AND the Pacific Page Cartridge.
>Neither of which seem to work well with Windows XP or
>MacOS X.

>Oh well...

>BTW... Anyone got an AST SixPak Plus they are willing
>to part with? I built an XT for old times sake, but it
>only has 256k.

>I have to find one of those controller cards that will
>support a 1.44mb FDD also... Maybe at the Trenton
>Computer Festival next spring...

>Al

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