Comment by dphnx
2 days ago
Ah, so the characters we’re seeing here are twice as wide as they would be when printed? Adding some CSS to compress the page horizontally looks a lot closer to the first image you shared:
html {
transform: scaleX(50%);
}
The font on the page is definitely too wide -- it should be taller than wide, and 10 characters per inch.
I'm not sure the original MX-80 had square dots. Since they made this to be pixel accurate, the aspect ratio might be off because the MX-80 was off.
The key test is not how it looks on screen, but how it looks printed.
My recollection is that the dots were round on my dot matrix. But it also used a typewriter ribbon, so there was a bit of texture from that.
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I played with it a bit and 65% or so seemed more accurate to my memories