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Comment by mark-r

1 day ago

Good point, the dots were produced by pins that were round. What I meant to say was that the spacing might have been different in the two directions.

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wiredfool  13 hours ago

Yes, I’m sure they would be. Especially since the same font would have been used for normal width (10 characters per inch) and compressed (17 cpi).

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