Real Old School Programming

[Tim Shoppa]

Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
> woodelf wrote:
> > Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> >>
> >> They look pretty distinct to me (X11, font is Vera Sans Mono).  By 
> >> "modern displays" what exactly do you mean?
> >>
> > My font is the delault windows netscape mail-reader font.
>
> That would be Courier New if you didn't touch the defaults.  I haven't 
> either, and I do agree that l and 1 are barely distinguishable.

Well, on the first machine I had that used a Courier-type font, you
typed the lower-case-letter-L for the numeral 1 and you typed
an uppercase-letter-O for the numeral 0. So they were not only
hard to distinguish, they were in fact identical...

I suppose that might be "Courier Old" :-).

Tim.